Our Patron Saint

St. Benedict was born in Umbria, Italy, about 480 A.D. He studied in Rome, but fled the moral dangers of the city. He founded a monastery near Subiaco, now Sacro Speca, and developed his “Holy Rule,” which became the norm of all Western monks. As the cross of Jesus Christ was the chief object of elevation among the first Christians, so it was also for St. Benedict. Hence, he is represented bearing the Cross of Christ and the Holy Rule. St. Benedict died in 547. His sister, St. Scholastica, founded the women’s order of Benedictines.