Benedict of Nursia dies. 590. Gregory the Great elected pope. Benedict was born as the Roman Empire was disintegrating, and during his youth, ...

For months, I’ve been planning a men’s pilgrimage to Norcia, known to most Americans as Nursia. The pilgrimage was for the men’s group at St. Mark’s Catholic Community in Vicenza, Italy.

The New York Times, of all places, proclaims the joyful news that the Birra Nursia brewery was spared the horrible Norcia earthquake! More: “Remarkably, the brewery was hardly damaged,” the ...

Pope Benedict XVI devoted his catechesis during his general audience on April 9 to St. Benedict of Nursia, the father of Western monasticism, patron saint of Europe, and the patron saint of Pope ...

"A container of Birra Nursia is in the middle of the Atlantic now, on its way to the U.S., where it will be on sale from March," he said. "We can’t go home, ...

The Good Life and St Benedict of Nursia 05/07/2009. Noel Debien speaks with David Orr, a monk of the Benedictine monastery at Arcadia in North-Western Sydney.

Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, rebuild their town after earthquakes, true to their order’s high regard for labor.

Saint Benedict, founder of Western monasticism, was born in the Italian city of Nursia in the year 480. When he was fourteen years of age, the saint's parents sent him to Rome to study. Unsettled by ...

The Good Life and St Benedict of Nursia. Download as MP3. THIS EPISODE In headier moments, many an enthusiastic young Christian has considered trying the good life as a monk or a nun, ...

Benedict of Nursia and Ignatius Loyola have guided me with their wisdom the past few years through a tool I use weekly: a Rule of Life. Let me back up. Several years ago, ...

Benedict was not the first monk: the practice of holy men going “into the wilderness” has biblical precedent. It is true also that there were other national monastic traditions (the ...