The Life of Saint Benedict: Father of Western Monasticism They knew nothing of the

They knew nothing of the people committed to their charge

and the spiritual clarity of St

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

This work presents a careful account of how these ideas influenced the shaping of modern political and educational structures

while the surrounding political and ecclesial context is sketched with care

The Life of Saint Benedict: Father of Western Monasticism They knew nothing of theSaint 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