St. Benedict, Feast Day
St Benedict, Patron of Europe (Abbot) Saint Benedict of Nursia, also spelled Norcia, (born c. 480 CE, Nursia —died c. 547, Monte Cassino; founder of the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino and father of Western monasticism; the Rule that he established became the norm for monastic living throughout Europe. In 1964, in view of the work […]