The Catholic community is celebrating, this Thursday (11), the Benedict’s Feast Daysanto patron of Europe and Germanywhose teachings inspired the establishment The Benedictine Order.
The Christian life and work of Benedict of Urás is celebrated every year on July 11 on the Roman calendar because it marks the date his remains were taken to the Abbey of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, in central France, where they are preserved. in crypt.
Saint Benedict was born in the year 480, the son of a noble family in the city of Nursia, Italy, and twin brother of Saint Scholastica. He was beaten for overcoming two traps created by the Devil to destroy him and thus weaken the Christian faith. He refused a cup of wine which he changed into a snake and then a loaf of bread; both poisons. His life was marked by a self-imposed exile, which he chose to live alone, dedicating himself to prayer and Christian sacrifice, until he was elected to a monastery in Vicovaro.
Later, the saint founded twelve small monasteries, one of which, one of Monte Cassino, would be the basis for the establishment and expansion of the Benedictine Order, the oldest of the Catholic monastic orders, which preached the total isolation of monk
His order is based on the Rule of Saint Benedict, which the saint began to write 13 years before his death and which enjoins poverty, virginity, obedience, prayer, work, hosting travelers in monasteries, the promotion of education and assistance for the public. poor. The last Benedictine Pope was Pius VII, who was pontiff between 1800 and 1823.
In Brazil, São Bento is worshiped in monasteries located in some of the main cities of the country, such as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador.
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