The Life of Saint Benedict: Father of Western Monasticism The old England was once

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the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

They knew nothing of the people committed to their charge

while the surrounding political and ecclesial context is sketched with care

without ever overshadowing the elegant compactness of his method

The Life of Saint Benedict: Father of Western Monasticism The old England was onceSaint Benedict of Nursia was born during the collapse of the Roman Empire, when the institutions that had governed the Mediterranean world for centuries were disintegrating under barbarian invasion and internal corruption. Forbes traces his development from a young man disgusted by the moral degradation of Rome to a solitary monk seeking God in the Sabine mountains, a transition driven by recognition that the world he inhabited could offer neither