St benedict of nursia biography of barack
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From Saint Benedict to the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
766 CE: From Charlemagne to Napoleon
Made kejsare of western Europe in 800 CE, Charlemagne was a great supporter of the pope and the primary patron of the Carolingian Renaissance. He underwrote projects to support monasteries and propagate the Rule of Benedict throughout Europe. Metten Abbey, founded in 766 in Bavaria, was one such monastery.
During the next millennium, the Holy långnovell Empire shrank gradually until Napoleon established his own liberal, secular empire. “By 1814,” writes Fr. Colman J. Barry in Worship and Work, a history of Saint John’s Abbey in Minnesota, “scarcely thirty Benedictine monasteries remained as a disorganized . . . and tottering remnant of the armies of monks which had once Christianized and civilized Europe.”
In 1825, Ludwig I ascended to the throne of Bavaria. He “dreamed,” writes Fr. Colman, “of creating a union of political liberalism and traditional Catholicism.” Rest
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What You Need to Know About St. Benedict and His Medal
Most people, Catholics included, don't realize how indebted the Church, Europe and the world are to St. Benedict of Nursia. The very presence of his monks in their monasteries became a stabilizing, civilizing factor no matter where they planted themselves. It was from these centers of great learning and prayer that monks and nuns went about their zealous work of evangelizing. It should be pointed out that many of Europe’s greatest cities started out as little more than ramshackle Benedictine monasteries. “Munich” is the German word for “monk.” “Monaco” on the French Riviera, is the Italian word for “monk.”
As Christ is the vine, the Benedictines are the branches. Like kudzu, you simply drop monks off someplace and run. Hopefully you won't get trampled in their evangelical wake.
It's a pity so many Westerners, including Catholics, are ignorant of all that Benedict and his merry band of followers, many of whom labored in holy
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The following talk was given by Sister Thomas Welder, OSB, in September 2015 at a formation seminar for new faculty at the University of Mary.
The Benedictine spirit emanates from a person who lived in the sixth century: Saint Benedict of Nursia. Benedict grew up in the countryside but was sent to study the liberal arts in Rome. He became dismayed with the moral decline and chaos of the time, and so he escaped. But he didn’t go too far. Benedict became a hermit, probably for a couple of years. But there were other God-seekers in the region, and they called Benedict out of that life of solitude. And Benedict realized that the search for God goes a lot better when we do it with each other. So he and his sister, Scholastica, began to form small communities of women and men.
We need to be clear here that Benedict had no intention of starting a religious order. It happened very gradually; he felt called by God to bring people together in a search for Him through community, through p