Saint Benedict

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"The Father of the West"
Europe was in shambles. Román law and order and civil-ization had crumbled. In their wake, robber bands and barbarian tribes roamed up and down the continent, pil-laging, destroying, making civilized life impossible. Edu-cated Christians and unlettered ones were of the same mind: it looked like the end of the world.
It wasn't; nor was it even the end of the classical-Christian culture that seemed in its death throes. Instead, God sent one of His greatest saints—and the West lived on.
Such thoughts would néver have crossed the mind of St. Benedict. He was, simply and unassumingly, a man of God—at first, a solitary. But his holiness, and the miracles God let him work, inevitably brought him followers. To chart for them a God-centered yet practical way of com-munity life, he wrote the little document that was destined to change the world, The Rule of St. Benedict. So sane, so balanced, so good a rule was this, that out of it grew the whole immense movement... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"The Father of the West"
Europe was in shambles. Román law and order and civil-ization had crumbled. In their wake, robber bands and barbarian tribes roamed up and down the continent, pil-laging, destroying, making civilized life impossible. Edu-cated Christians and unlettered ones were of the same mind: it looked like the end of the world.
It wasn't; nor was it even the end of the classical-Christian culture that seemed in its death throes. Instead, God sent one of His greatest saints—and the West lived on.
Such thoughts would néver have crossed the mind of St. Benedict. He was, simply and unassumingly, a man of God—at first, a solitary. But his holiness, and the miracles God let him work, inevitably brought him followers. To chart for them a God-centered yet practical way of com-munity life, he wrote the little document that was destined to change the world, The Rule of St. Benedict. So sane, so balanced, so good a rule was this, that out of it grew the whole immense movement that dotted Europe with mon-asteries, giving Christendom not only spiritual power-houses, but channels of culture as well.
In these pages a distinguished modern disciple of St. Benedict, Abbot Justin McCann, re-creates the life and teaching of this great and lovable saint. Long acknowl-edged as the best biography of Benedict for modern readers, it is now available again in á newly revised edition specially prepared for image books. Vissza