On Good Friday 1944, in the hamlet of San Michele Arcangelo del Tancia, a German detachment led by the prefect of Rieti burned houses and livestock and gathered in the chapel those who had stayed: women, old people and children, since the men had gone away. In the afternoon they took them outside and killed them: fifteen people, among them four mothers, six children and a man of eighty-four.
The dead were even denied burial: the survivors carried them back into the chapel at night, in secret. The village, of medieval origin, belonged for a long time to the Orsini of Monterotondo and then passed to the Apostolic Chamber; of the castle, which was round, a small tower and the square keep remain: the rest was pulled down after the plague of 1650 and an earthquake of the early eighteenth century.
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📅 Every year, on 27 December
On 27 December Monte San Giovanni in Sabina celebrates its patron Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist, whose name became part of the town's own name; Monte Tancia and the Rocca di Tancia lie within its territory.
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