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In April 2008, Pope Benedict XVI discussed the influence St Benedict had on Western Europe. The pope said that "with his life and work St Benedict exercised a fundamental influence on the development of European civilization and culture" and helped Europe to emerge from the "dark night of history" that followed the fall of the Roman Empire. [30]
Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480–543); detail from a fresco by Fra Angelico (c. 1400–1455) in the Friary of San Marco Florence. The monastery at Subiaco in Italy, established by Benedict of Nursia c. 529, was the first of the dozen monasteries he founded.
Once a friar of the Order, Benedict was assigned to Palermo to the Franciscan Friary of St. Mary of Jesus. He started at the friary as a cook, but, showing the degree of his advancement in the spiritual life, he was soon appointed as the master of novices , and later as Guardian of the community, although he was a lay brother rather than a ...
According to accounts, "Benedict died in the oratory of St. Martin, and was buried in the oratory of St. John." [11] The Rule of St. Benedict mandated the moral obligations to care for the sick. So in Monte Cassino St. Benedict founded a hospital that is considered today to have been the first in Europe of the new era.
In the 11th century, three Benedictine monks, Robert of Molesme, Alberic and Stephen Harding, sought to follow the Rule of St. Benedict in all its fulness. Along with a group of other monks who shared this vision of simplicity, austerity and fraternal life, they went to Cîteaux in Burgundy, where the "New Monastery" was established in March 1098.
Benedict's relics, and the Miracula S. Benedicti [clarification needed] developed over three centuries by five monks of Fleury, including Andreas of Fleury (c. 1043), [11] attracted pilgrims, bringing wealth and fame. Monks of the Italian monastery Monte Cassino, which was founded by Benedict himself, disputed this story. They claimed that ...
The new order was recognised in 1259, and solemnly approved by Pope Benedict XI in 1304. It remains one of twelve Mendicant orders in the Catholic Church . The discipline of fervently practising humility had drawn Alexis into wandering as a mendicant .
St. Benedict Abbey (Massachusetts), a member of the Swiss-American Congregation of Benedictine monasteries. [7] [8] Sisters of St. Benedict Center, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Saint Anne's House), canonically recognized by the Catholic Church as a religious community in the diocese of Worcester. [9]