Saint Benedict, founder of Western monasticism, was born in the Italian city of Nursia in the year 480. When he was fourteen years of age, the saint's parents sent him to Rome to study. Unsettled by ...

"The name Benedict also evokes the extraordinary figure of the great 'patriarch of western monasticism,' St. Benedict of Norcia, co-patron of Europe with Cyril and Methodius. The progressive ...

Benedict is regarded as the founder of Western monasticism and he is the patron saint of Europe. With his simple rule of work, study and prayer, we think he's a good saint for a university chaplaincy ...

Benedict on the Mountain, a community of Benedictine monks perched above a wide valley that was then just greening with the spring. Norcia is the birthplace of Western monasticism, the home of St.