The Life of Saint Benedict: Father of Western Monasticism Originally composed as a series

Originally composed as a series of instructional essays

Father Kenners’ account

preserved its reason and its arts

the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

and the spiritual clarity of St

The Life of Saint Benedict: Father of Western Monasticism Originally composed as a seriesSaint 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