The saint gave each skete an igumen from among his experienced disciples, and only the novice monks remained with St Benedict for instruction. The strict monastic Rule St Benedict established for the ...

In the chapel of St Benedict in Westminster Abbey is a stone tablet set beneath the carved head of a monk. The sculptor was Albert Siegenthaler and the memorial was given by the Nashdom Community and ...

A monk is a cleric who takes vows of religion ... follow—with varying degrees of severity—the rule of conduct that St. Benedict of Nursia wrote down in 529 for his community of cenobites ...

In the eyes of Father Richard Walz, a Benedictine monk at Subiaco Abbey in Arkansas, hot sauces are like rosaries: everybody ...

The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks of his own abbey at Monte Cassino in Italy about ...

to reach the town of Norcia and the monastery of St. Benedict on the Mountain, a community of Benedictine monks perched above a wide valley that was then just greening with the spring. Norcia is ...

His two main writings, Institutes of the Monastic Life and Conferences on the Egyptian Monks, were much praised by St. Benedict and were long influential; the former had a direct impact upon ...

Monks started making it in the 1830s to supply ... a part of the “ora et labora” (work and pray) commitment under St Benedict’s rule. “Our ideal is to pray always,” said Brother Paul ...