The Life of Saint Benedict: Father of Western Monasticism and the reverent customs that

and the reverent customs that shape the soul toward a Catholic sense of time

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Originally composed as a series of instructional essays

preserved its reason and its arts

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The Life of Saint Benedict: Father of Western Monasticism and the reverent customs thatSaint 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