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St. Benedict of Nursia - English
URL: http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/BENEDICT.htm

Overrun by half-civilized pagan and Arian hordes during the fifth century, Italy and the entire Mediterranean world was falling back into barbarism. The Church was torn by conflict, city and country alike were made desolate by war and pillage, violence was rampant among Christians as well as heathen.

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Saint Benedict - English
URL: http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/texte/manuscrit/aman11/i8_0054.htm

Breviary of Martin of Aragon Spain, Catalonia 15th Century.

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St. Benedict - English
URL: http://www.procopius.org/benedict.htm

St. Benedict, recognized as the father of western monasticism and honored as Patron of Europe in 1964 by Pope Paul VI, was born around 480 A.D. in the mountainous town of Nursia, in central Italy.

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SAINT BENEDICT - Title - English
URL: http://ccel.org/b/benedict/benedict.html

BENEDICT, ST, the founder of the celebrated Benedictine order, is the most illustrious name in the early history of Western monasticism. To him more than to any other the monastic system, which was destined to exercise such an influence for centuries, owes its extension and organization. Benedict was born at Nursia in Umbria about the year 480.

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Benedict, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/be/BenedctSt.html

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Italian monk, called Benedict of Nursia, author of a rule for monks that became the basis of the Benedictine order, b. Norcia (E of Spoleto). He went to Rome to study, then withdrew to Subiaco to live as a hermit; after three years he was renowned for his holiness.

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Biography: Benedict, Founder of Western Monasticism (11 July 540) - English
URL: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/07/11.html

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Medal of Saint Benedict - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13338a.htm

A medal, originally a cross, dedicated to the devotion in honour of St. Benedict. One side of the medal bears an image of St. Benedict, holding a cross in the right hand and the Holy Rule in the left. On the one side of the image is a cup, on the other a raven, and above the cup and the raven are inscribed the words: "Crux Sancti Patris Benedicti" (Cross of the Holy Father Benedict).

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Western Monasticism - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10472a.htm

Visit the New Advent website for the Summa Theologica, Church Fathers, Catholic Encyclopedia and more.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Benedict of Nursia - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02467b.htm

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Patron Saints Index: Benedict - English
URL: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintb02.htm

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Patron Saint Index profile of Saint Benedict; illustrated.

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Gregory I Second Dialogue - Index - IntraText CT - English
URL: http://www.intratext.com/X/ENG0062.htm

Containing the Life and Miracles of St. Benedict (Bennet) of Nursia.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Monasticism - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10459a.htm

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Monasticism or monachism, literally the act of "dwelling alone" (Greek monos, monazein, monachos), has come to denote the mode of life pertaining to persons living in seclusion from the world, under religious vows and subject to a fixed rule, as monks, friars, nuns, or in general as religious. The basic idea of monasticism in all its varieties is seclusion or withdrawal from the world or society.

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The Abbey of Montecassino: Life of St. Benedict - English
URL: http://www.officine.it/montecassino/storia_e/benedett.htm

After his initial studies, he went to Rome. Disgusted by rampant vice, he abandoned everything and retired to the lonely rocks of Subiaco where he led a hermit's existence: "soli Deo placere cupiens" as his biographer St. Gregory Magnum wrote - "with the only desire to be agreeable to the Lord".

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St. Benedict and his Order: A brief history - English
URL: http://www.christdesert.org/noframes/scholar/benedict/benedict_history.html

Many are those whose deeds and personalities have merged to shape what we think of as Western, or European, civilization. Certainly, larger-than-life characters such as Caesar Augustus, Elizabeth I, Louis XIV, Napoleon, and the Medici can be called to mind without much effort. But it can also be said that, influential as they were, these giants presided over the agonies of the developing world. Perhaps it is for this reason that their names have retained their glamor. Wealth and power are, as ever, formidably attractive.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rule of St. Benedict - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02436a.htm

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Saint Benedict of Nursia by Abbot Primate Jerome Theisen OSB. Life, biography, introduction. - English
URL: http://www.osb.org/gen/bendct.html

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Brief biography of Saint Benedict, born ca. 480 AD, he began his life as a monk in Subiaco and wrote a Rule for monasteries that civilized Europe. He and his twin sister, Scholastica, are buried at Monte Cassino.

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The Holy Rule of Saint Benedict - English
URL: http://www.christdesert.org/noframes/holyrule/holyrule_home.html

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OSB. Rule of Benedict. Index. Order of Saint Benedict. Text, translations, bibliography. - English
URL: http://www.osb.org/rb/index.html

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Text, translations, bibliography, commentary, web resources, links and information about the Rule of Saint Benedict, from Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, MN 56321-2015 USA

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