Bertharius (Italian: San Bertario di Montecassino) (ca. 810 – 883) was a Benedictine abbot of Monte Cassino who is venerated as a saint and martyr. He was also a poet and a writer. A member of the Lombard nobility Bertharius as a young man made a pilgrimage to Monte Cassino at the time of the abbacy of Bassacius and decided as a result to become a monk.He became abbot in 856 succeeding Bassacius in that position.
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