WELCOME! THE UNITED DIOCESES OF NARNI AND TERNI (NARNIENSIS ET INTERAMNENSIS) The Abbey of San Cassiano, Narni Located in Central Italy, Narni is the ancient Nequinum of the Sabines; in 300 and 299 B.C., it was besieged by the Romans, who destroyed the city and sent there a Latin colony, changing the name to Narnia . Luitprand captured the town in 726, but Pope Zacharias [Zachary] persuaded him to restore it to the Duchy of Rome in 742, after which it remained under pontifical rule. From 1198 to 1214, Narni was in rebellion against Innocent III , who temporarily suppressed its episcopal see. Narni venerates as its first bishop the martyr Juvenalis, who died in the second half of the fourth century; Saint Maximus, who was bishop in 425, was succeeded by Hercules and Pancratius. Saint Gregory the Great refers to the bishop Saint Cassius , who died in 558; the same pontiff wrote a letter to the bishop Projectinus which shows that, at Narni, at that time, there we...