Saint Benedict was born in Nursia, a small town in Umbria, in north central Italy, in 480 to an upper-class family. Saint Benedict went to Rome to finish his education, where the power of the voice without foundation in the heart was the goal of the student's education. Saint Benedict became dominated by the study of rhetoric, which an successful speaker was not one who had the best argument or conveyed the truth, but one who …showed first 75 words of 1371 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1371 total…of the words that should be spoken to deepen one's connection to another. I enjoyed reading the Rules of Saint Benedict. It was hard for me to believe that the rules come from the sixth century and are still used and followed today. Bibliography Catholic Encyclopedia Saint Benedict of Nursia http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02436a.htm Knowles, Dom David The Benedictines: A Digest for Moderns; Online http://www.osb.org/gen/knowles/index.html .