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Benedict of Nursia

Born: c. 480
Died: 547

Italian monk and founder of the monastery of Monte Cassino, whose Rule for monks became the standard pattern of monastic life in the Latin West; his life is known chiefly from the second book of Gregory the Great's Dialogues.

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The Rule of Saint Benedictc. 530

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The Rule of Saint Benedict

Benedict's sixth-century rule for monks, setting out the abbot's authority, obedience, silence and humility, the order of the Divine Office, discipline, work, reading, hospitality and the life of the monastery, in Ernest F. Henderson's 1892 translation. Henderson omits the lists of psalms and some runs of scriptural quotation, as his notes indicate.

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