 ; after 1960 a second wave (half of the population) left the village to go to foreign countries in Northern Europe, but also to the United States and Brazil.San Biagio (Saint Blase) whose relics are in many local churches is revered by the Benedictine Monks of the Monte Cassino Abbey, set up in 529 on land above the Valley of Comino.The term Saracinisco may result whether of Caraceni, a pre-Roman tribe, whose name evolved in Caracenisco, then transformed into Saracinisco, or of Saracen (in Latin Saraceni).