The oldest continuously operating school in the world was founded by Benedictines in this city in 597 AD:

In the beginning of the film, “Of Gods and Men,” a woman takes her daughter to the monk who serves as a doctor. In addition to medical care, the monk gives the women:

The leader of the monastic community is known as the Abbot. This term comes from a Greek term that means:

According to the Life of St. Benedict, the monks living in St. Benedict’s first monastic community tried to poison him.  

According to the Prologue, Benedict intends the monastery to serve as a school for the Lord’s service and for his monks to translate the teachings of the Gospel into action.

St. Benedict had no intention of founding a worldwide religious order.

St. Benedict was born in which town? 

Throughout the semester, we have discussed the fact that the Catholic Church, in its theology and institutional organization, is primarily an individualistic and not a communal phenomenon.

Although St. Benedict never used the expression, Benedictine monasticism is often said to revolve around the concepts of “ora et labora.” What do these Latin words mean in English?

In class, we discussed the spiritual longing evidenced by St. Benedict’s life and found similar contemporary examples reflected in all of the following except: