SUBIACO, Italy – If the guy had stayed underground, well . . .. “Well,” says Brother John with a chuckle, “if he had, I wonder where . . . where, indeed, would we be now?” Tall and good-humored, a gray-haired man in a long black robe, Brother John O’Shannassy, a Benedictine monk from Australia, has lived in this monastery called Santuario Sacro Speco (Sanctuary … [Read more...] about VISITING BENEDICT’S BASEMENT; A FASCINATING MONASTERY ON A RUGGED ITALIAN MOUNTAINSIDE