The Life of Our Most Holy Father St. Benedict
St. (c. ) Gregory I's exploration of church and love in Christian doctrine and practice.
68 Chapters
Table of Contents
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CHAPTER I: Benedict having now left the schools resolved to betake himself to the
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CHAPTER II: How he overcame a temptation of the flesh.
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CHAPTER III: How St. Benedict brake a glass by the sign of the cross.
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CHAPTER V: How by the prayer of the man of God a spring issued from the top of a
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CHAPTER VII: How his disciple Maurus walked on the water.
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CHAPTER VIII: Of the poisoned loaf which the crow carried away.
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CHAPTER X: Of the fantastical fire which burned the kitchen.
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CHAPTER XII: Of Monks who had eaten out of their monastery.
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CHAPTER XIII: How he reproved the brother of Valentinian the Monk for eating by the
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CHAPTER XV: How he prophesied to king Totila and to the Bishop of Canosa.
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CHAPTER XVI: How venerable Benedict dispossessed a certain clerk from the Devil.
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CHAPTER XVIII: How St. Benedict discovered the hiding of a flagon of wine.
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CHAPTER XX: How the man of God understood the proud thought of one of his Monks.
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CHAPTER XXI: Of two hundred measures of meal found before the man of God's cell.
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CHAPTER XXII: How by a vision, he gave order to construct
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CHAPTER XXIII: How certain Religious women were absolved
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CHAPTER XXV: Of the Monk, who leaving his Monastery
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CHAPTER XXVII: How St. Benedict miraculously procured money
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CHAPTER XXIX: How an empty barrel was filled with oil.
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CHAPTER XXX: How he delivered a Monk from the devil.
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CHAPTER XXXI: How a country man was loosed by only the
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CHAPTER XXXII: How he raised a child from the dead.
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CHAPTER XXXIII: Of the miracle wrought by his sister Scholastica.
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CHAPTER XXXV: How the whole world was repesented before his
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CHAPTER XXXVII: How he prophetically foretold his death
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CHAPTER XXXVIII: How a mad woman was cured in his cave.
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CHAPTER II: What kind of man the Abbot ought to be.
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CHAPTER IV: What are the instruments of good works.
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CHAPTER V: Of the obedience of disciples.
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CHAPTER VII: Of Humility.
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CHAPTER IX: How many psalms are to be said in the night-hours.
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CHAPTER XI: How Matins, or Night-office, is to be celebrated on Sundays.
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CHAPTER XIII: How Lauds are to celebrated on ferial or week days.
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CHAPTER XV: At what seasons "Alleluia" must be said.
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CHAPTER XVIII: How many psalms are to be said during the aforesaid hours.
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CHAPTER XVIII: In what order the psalms are to be said.
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CHAPTER XX: Of reverence at prayer.
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CHAPTER XXII: How the Monks are to sleep.
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CHAPTER XXIV: What the manner of excommunication ought to be.
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CHAPTER XXVI: Of those who keep company with the excommunicated without the command
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CHAPTER XXVIII: Of those who, being often corrected, do not amend.
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CHAPTER XXX: How children are to be corrected.
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CHAPTER XXXI: What kind of man the Cellarer of the monastery ought to be.
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CHAPTER XXXIII: Whether monks ought to have anything of their own.
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CHAPTER XXXV: Of the weekly servers in the kitchen.
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CHAPTER XXXVII: Of old men and children.
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CHAPTER XXXIX: Of the measure or quantity of meat.
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CHAPTER XLI: At what hours the Brethren are to take their Refections.
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CHAPTER XLIII: Of those who come late to the work of God or to table.
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CHAPTER XLV: Of those who commit any fault in the Oratory.
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CHAPTER XLVII: Of making known the hour for the work of God.
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CHAPTER XLVIII: Of daily manual labour.
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CHAPTER L: Of the Brethren who work at a great distance from the Oratory, or are
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CHAPTER LII: Of the Oratory of the Monastery.
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CHAPTER LIII: Of the manner of entertaining guests.
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CHAPTER LV: Of the clothes and shoes of the Brethren.
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CHAPTER LVII: Of the artificers of the Monastery.
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CHAPTER LVIII: Of the manner of receiving Brothers to Religion.
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CHAPTER LX: Of priests who desire to dwell in the Monastery.
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CHAPTER LXI: Of monks that are strangers, how they are to be received.
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CHAPTER LXIII: Of the order of the Community.
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CHAPTER LXIV: Of the election of the Abbot.
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CHAPTER LXV: Of the Provost of the Monastery.
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CHAPTER LXVII: Of brethren who are sent on a journey.
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CHAPTER LXIX: That no one presume to defend another in the Monastery.
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CHAPTER LXXI: That the brethren be obedient to each other.
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CHAPTER LXXIII: That the whole observance of perfection is not contained in this Rule.
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Chapter I: I. Of the several kinds of monks 34