Saint Benedict

Saint Benedict

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  • Description / Title of the Saint : Abbot

Saint Benedict

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  • Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Benedict: March 21
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Abbot
  • Date of Birth: Saint Benedict was born 480
  • Date of Death: Saint Benedict died 21st March, 543
 
 

The Story and History of Saint Benedict
The story and history of Saint Benedict. Benedict was born of a noble Italian family about 480. When a boy he was sent to Rome, and there placed in the public schools. Scared by the licentiousness of the Roman youth, he fled to the desert mountains of Subiaco, and was directed by the Holy Spirit into a cave, deep, craggy, and almost inaccessible. He lived there for three years, unknown to any one save the holy monk Romanus, who clothed him with the monastic habit and brought him food. But the fame of his sanctity soon gathered disciples round him.

The rigor of his rule, however, drew on him the hatred of some of the monks, and one of them mixed poison with the abbot's drink; but when the Saint made the sign of the cross on the poisoned bowl, it broke and fell in pieces to the ground. After he had built twelve monasteries at Subiaco, he removed to Monte Casino, where he founded an abbey in which he wrote his rule and lived until death. By prayer he did all things: wrought miracles, saw visions, and prophesied. A peasant, whose boy had just died, ran in anguish to St. Benedict, crying out, "Give me back my son!" The monks joined the poor man in his entreaties; but the Saint replied, "Such miracles are not for us to work, but for the blessed apostles. Why will you lay upon me a burden which my weakness cannot bear? " Moved at length by compassion he knelt down and, prostrating himself upon the body of the child, prayed earnestly. Then rising, he cried out, "Behold not, O Lord, my sins, but the faith of this man, who desireth the life of his son, and restore to the body that soul which Thou hast taken away." Hardly had he spoken when the child's body began to tremble, and taking it by the hand he restored it alive to its father. Six days before his death he ordered his grave to be opened, and fell ill of a fever. On the sixth day he requested to be borne into the chapel, and, having received the body and blood of Christ, with hands uplifted, and leaning on one of his disciples, he calmly expired in prayer on the 21st of March, 543.

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Feast Day of Saint Benedict
The Feast Day of Saint Benedict is March 21. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven.

 

Saint Benedict

  • Short, concise biography of Saint Benedict
  • History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
  • Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Benedict
  • Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Benedict - March 21
  • History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
  • Date of Death: 21st March, 543
  • Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Benedict
  • Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Abbot
 
 

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Saint Benedict