San Giovanni in Fiore (; ) is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
The town originates from the Florense Abbey, built here by the Calabrian monk Joachim of Fiore in 1188.
Marjorie Reeves of Oxford University was made an honorary citizen of San Giovanni for reviving interest in Joachim of Fiore.Richard Pring, ‘Reeves, Marjorie Ethel (1905–2003)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, January 2007; online edn, Jan 2009 accessed 3 October 2015
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