Front Matter
Of Rome in the Fifth Century
Of Benedict the Youth
Of St. Benedict in the Desert
Of Maurus and Placid
Of Monte Cassino
Of the Building of the Abbey
Of the Rule of St. Benedict
Of the Gift of Vision
Of the Spreading of the Order
Of the Holy Virgin Scholastica
Of the Death of St. Benedict
Life of St. Benedict - F. A. Forbes |
This book tells the story of St. Benedict, the founder of western Monasticism. He was born in the late fifth century as barbarians from the north and east overran the ruins of the fallen Roman empire and laid waste to the last vestiges of civilization. From this ruin, Benedict established an order of religious communities that survived the wreck of the dark ages. |
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 ST. BENEDICT, FATHER OF THE MONKS. |
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"Then life is to wake, not sleep, Rise, and not rest, but press From earth's level, where blindly creep Things perfected, more or less To the Heaven's height, far and steep." —Robert Browning |
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