Mass for the Dead at Montecassino Italy

Winding up hairpin turn after hairpin turn, we made our way to the site of one of the many tragic victories for the Allies in WW II. Here's a few quick facts: Battle of Monte Cassino - Conflict & Dates: The Battle of Monte Cassino was fought January 17 to May 18, 1944, during World War II (1939-1945). Armies & Commanders

Allies

• General Sir Harold Alexander
• Lieutenant General Mark Clark
• Lieutenant General Oliver Leese
• US Fifth Army & British Eighth Army

Germans

• Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
• Colonel General Heinrich von Vietinghoff
• German 10th Army
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  Here's what it looked like in 1945
  
  
  
  
  
  Here's why we so desperately needed and need every generation a REFORMATION, a rediscovery of and passionate embrace of justification by grace alone, through faith alone, in CHRIST alone.
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  Here, lined with marble statues of popes, lie the relic of St Benedict, and here have flocked for centuries pilgrims to pray to him and seek "grace" from him. And they do so today. We came for other reasons...
• A Polish tour group brought along their own priest to say and sing a mass for the dead at the Polish war cemetery at Montecassino: