Rofrano

Rofrano was built around a Basilian monastery, located at the Church of Grottaferrata, where the inhabitants of Rofrano Vetere, a feudal center of the Samnites, and other families from a nearby village (about 10th century) moved there.
The first official news of Rofrano is contained in a document of 1131, with which Roger II granted the fief of Rofrano to the Basilian Leonzio Abate.
Ruggero's diploma shows that the abbey of Rofrano extended its dominion over eleven graves, located throughout today's province of Salerno.
For almost four hundred years Rofrano was ruled by the Abbots; the town offered many of its citizens in the II expedition to the Holy Land in 1187.
In 1476 the fief of Rofrano, except the church and the monastery, was sold to the Neapolitan diplomat Aniello Arcamone, to then pass to the Count of Policastro Giovanni Carafa, in 1490. These drove the Basilian monks left in the monastery of Rofrano, which he transformed into his own palace and arrogated to himself the spiritual jurisdiction of the town, appointing a priest as his vicar. This state of affairs was resolved by the Apostolic Commissioner sent by Pope Gregory XIII who, in 1583, added Rofrano to the Diocese of Capaccio. The vicar, visiting the churches of Rofrano, began from the mother church of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, where an icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary was kept, probably a copy of the one venerated in the Badia Greca of Grottaferrata.
In Rofrano, various lords followed, until 1800.

Rofrano was built around a Basilian monastery, located at the Church of Grottaferrata, where the inhabitants of Rofrano Vetere, a feudal center of the Samnites, and other families from a nearby village (about 10th century) moved there.
The first official news of Rofrano is contained in a document of 1131, with which Roger II granted the fief of Rofrano to the Basilian Leonzio Abate.
Ruggero's diploma shows that the abbey of Rofrano extended its dominion over eleven graves, located throughout today's province of Salerno.
For almost four hundred years Rofrano was ruled by the Abbots; the town offered many of its citizens in the II expedition to the Holy Land in 1187.
In 1476 the fief of Rofrano, except the church and the monastery, was sold to the Neapolitan diplomat Aniello Arcamone, to then pass to the Count of Policastro Giovanni Carafa, in 1490. These drove the Basilian monks left in the monastery of Rofrano, which he transformed into his own palace and arrogated to himself the spiritual jurisdiction of the town, appointing a priest as his vicar. This state of affairs was resolved by the Apostolic Commissioner sent by Pope Gregory XIII who, in 1583, added Rofrano to the Diocese of Capaccio. The vicar, visiting the churches of Rofrano, began from the mother church of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, where an icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary was kept, probably a copy of the one venerated in the Badia Greca of Grottaferrata.
In Rofrano, various lords followed, until 1800.