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Benedict of Nursia (Italian: ) (480 – 547) was a saint from Italy, the founder of Western Christian monasticism, and a rule-giver for cenobitic monks. His purpose may be gleaned from his Rule, namely...
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Afraid for his soul, Benedict fled Rome, gave up his inheritance, and lived in a small village with his nurse. When God called him beyond this quiet life to even deeper solitude, he went to the mountains of Subiaco. ... Why is St. Benedict the patron saint of kidney disease?
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The remainder of St. Benedict's life was spent in realizing the ideal of monasticism which he has left us drawn out in his Rule, and before we follow the slight chronological story given by St. Gregory, it will be better to examine the ideal, which, as St. Gregory says, is St. Benedict's real biography (ibid., 36).
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The exact time and place at which St. Benedict wrote his Rule are not known, nor can it be determined whether the Rule, as we now possess it, was composed as a single whole or whether it gradually took shape in response to the needs of his monks.
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Short biography, from the book "A Saint a Day" by Berchmans Bittle, O.F.M.Cap. ... ST. BENEDICT THE MOOR (ALSO CALLED THE BLACK) B 1526—D. 1589 ... Benedict was born of Negro parents who were slaves on an estate near Messina, Sicily. Though of the lowest social rank, they possessed true nobility of heart and mind.
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Benedict and this old woman made their way to a village called Enfide, in the Sabine Mountains, some thirty miles from Rome. In the <Dialogues>, St. Gregory gives us a series of remarkable incidents associated with Benedict's life, one of them occurring at this time.
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ST. BENEDICT; an outline of his life ... ST. BENEDICT, founder of Montecassino and great legislator of Western monasticism, was born to a patrician family in Norcia (Perugia) in or about 480 A.D. ... After having founded twelve small convents, St. Benedict left Subiaco and went southward with a few disciples.
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