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Benedict Saint. ?480--?547 ad, Italian monk: founded the Benedictine order at Monte Cassino in Italy in about 540 ad. His Regula Monachorum became the basis of the rule of all Western Christian monastic orders. Feast day: July 11 or March 14 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| His main inspiration was Saint Benedict Joseph Labre (1758-1783), who had been a wanderer, a tramp, homeless, penniless, going from shrine to shrine, following his solitary vocation. Born Joseph Ratzinger in 1927, he chose the name Benedict XVI after Saint Benedict as well as Pope Benedict XV, who led the Church from 1914 to 1922. Several paragraphs later, when recounting what Guardini mainly sought to do in the Saint Benedict Chapel, "to make the truth glow," Kuehn cites him as a forerunner of Vatican Council II, 1962-1965, in short, as a "spiritual liberator," as one writer describes Guardini's role. |
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