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Originally composed as a series of instructional essays

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Father Kenners’ account

The Life of Saint Benedict: Father of Western Monasticism while the surrounding political andSaint Benedict of Nursia was born during the collapse of the Roman Empire, when the institutions that had governed the Mediterranean world for centuries were disintegrating under barbarian invasion and internal corruption. Forbes traces his development from a young man disgusted by the moral degradation of Rome to a solitary monk seeking God in the Sabine mountains, a transition driven by recognition that the world he inhabited could offer neither