San Giusto Abbey

The Abbey of San Giusto is a former Cistercian monastery located in the valley of the river Marta approximately 4 km south of Tuscania, Province of Viterbo, Italy.
The Valle del Marta was settled in ancient times by Etruscans and Romans. The first known monastery on the site was an early medieval Benedictine monastery, mentioned in documents of the tenth century, but later abandoned. In the middle of the twelfth century, the Cistercian abbey of Fontevivo , a daughter house of Clairvaux , sent a group of monks to resettle the site on July 26, 1146, a date confirmed by the later Decretals of Pope Honorius III . On April 2, 1178, during the abbacy of Abbot Donatus, Pope Alexander III granted considerable privileges and apostolic protection to abbati monasterii Sancti Iusti prope Tuscanellam ordinis Cistercensis . Soon after, relations between San Giusto and Fontevivo soured, and the General Chapter of the Cistercian Order condemned the abbot of San Giusto for irregularities. The condemnation was repeated in the General Chapter of 1202, when the abbot of San Giusto was deposed because of alleged lapses in monastic discipline.

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