"Saint Benedict" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... conduct which were prescribed for the inmates of the nunneries resemble in many ways those which were laid down for the men; and those first followed are ascribed to Scholastica, a sister of the great Saint Benedict, who established the order of Benedictines at Monte Cassino about 529; according to popular tradition, this holy woman was esteemed as the foundress of nunneries in Europe. For the regulation of the women's orders Saint ...
— Women of the Romance Countries • John R. Effinger
... In 529 Saint Benedict, a Roman of wealth who fled from the corruption of his city, founded the monastery of Monte Cassino, south of Rome, and established a form of government, or rule of daily life, which was gradually adopted by nearly all the monasteries of the West. In time Europe ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY
... the high window, I beheld the scene On which Saint Benedict so oft had gazed,— The mountains and the valley in the sheen Of the bright ...
— Italy, the Magic Land • Lilian Whiting
... Saint Benedict, the founder of the famous monastic order that bears his name, was born at Nursia, about 480 A.D. His parents, who were wealthy, intended to give him a liberal education; but their plans were defeated, for at fifteen years of age Benedict renounced his family and fortune, and fled from his school ...
— A Short History of Monks and Monasteries • Alfred Wesley Wishart |
