![]() ![]() ![]() When she heard her brother refuse her request, the holy woman joined her hands on the table, laid her head on them and began to pray. “Sister”, he replied, “what are you saying? I simply cannot stay outside my cell”.Ībove image by an unknown artist. The holy nun said to her brother: “Please do not leave me tonight let us go on until morning talking about the delights of the spiritual life”. Their spiritual conversation went on and the hour grew late. One day she came as usual and her saintly brother went with some of his disciples they spent the whole day praising God and talking of sacred things. He would come down to meet her at a place on the monastery property, not far outside the gate. She was accustomed to visiting her brother once a year. ![]() Scholastica, the sister of Saint Benedict, had been consecrated to God from her earliest years. She vowed herself to seek God in religious life and followed her brother to Monte Cassino where she died around 547, three days after the story related below. Scholastica was born at Norcia (Nursia) Italy about the year 480. Gregory the Great here relates a famous story of a very special meeting between Scholastica and her brother, the great abbot Benedict. ![]()
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