Benedict of Nursia

Life events

1. educated — 495

   Sent to Rome for liberal arts education; abandoned studies in disgust at moral corruption.

2. tonsured — 500

   Withdrew to a cave at Subiaco for three years of solitary ascetic life.

3. other — 510

   Established twelve monasteries of twelve monks each at Subiaco — his first monastic organization.

4. other — 529

   Founded the great Abbey of Monte Cassino on the ruins of a pagan temple — cradle of Western monasticism.

5. died — 547

   Died at Monte Cassino on the Feast of the Annunciation; buried in the same tomb as his sister Scholastica.

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