Parrocchia dei SS. Benedetto e Lucia

Every Church welcomes and Don Vivian welcomes everyone

Large and easily accessible church

The thing to note is the alabaster altar from an English quarry

Imposing church for its charm. Excellent parish priest!

Given the condition in which the square in front of the church is located, and the controversies with the Municipality of Cascina regarding who competes the arrangement of the pavement of that square, I ask myself, and I ask anyone able to provide an answer: Di who is this square? It was always known that it was a good of the former State property of the state and that therefore now it was up to the municipality to maintain it. Since December 2015, the Municipality has no longer provided, as it had always done for its relative maintenance, declaring that this square is the property of the church. Who's right? Is there a certain way to know? I thank in advance those who can provide answers or provide indications for the discovery of the truth.

Warmth and cordiality, thanks to Pastor Don Vivian, very friendly and helpful. Lugo of meditation and rich in history

We owe to this place of work and prayer, the motto of the Benedictine congregation "ORA ET LABORA". From this community of friars, sent and financed by the bishop of Pisa, began the safety of the riverbed and the complete reclamation of the plain up to the gates of Pisa. In the first stretch the Arno river was harnessed under the first heights of Monte Pisano, up to Calci, while then you can see a continuous path that reaches the gates of Pisa. This floor sacrifices the first building that the friars themselves built; which is located at the bottom of the river bed, the Church of Santa Lucia, of which the original bells are preserved immediately after the entrance of the new parish church of San Benedetto a seventh, in Baroque style. Another small curiosity is the kindergarten adjacent to the structure. Renaissance building, it was the second church erected by the Benedictines, enlarged and replaced by the definitive version that we can all still admire. The centrality of the Benedictine community also lies in the toponymy of the place, in fact the villages of San Benedetto and San Frediano bear the wording "a seventh"; equivalent to 10 km. Today. This distance from the Pisan capital was a typical medieval reference, and is often found around important cities (seventh Milanese, Turin, etc.), and as in this case indicates the place where the reclamation works of the plain began. Furthermore, the marshy ground ended just beyond the location of the Church of Santa Lucia, reaching 8 meters above sea level at Cascina, a village that was already present in 1000, and which was used as a post office and for changing horses. already in Roman times. Cascina itself did not have the means to plan such a change of course for the Arno, which would also have changed the economy and the well-being of its citizens, deriving from the renewed healthiness of the reclaimed places. For the growing wealth and demographic increase of Pisa; Instead, the urban expansion towards the Arno plain as far as Cascina was a necessary and natural outlet, and the bishop in office thought of using the Benedictines, also to limit economic investments with respect to the enormous result achieved. From 950 to 1100 ca. the works lasted, even if not completely definitive; Works that forever changed the Pisan territory to the EAST of the Pisan capital.