Saint Scholastica with Grapes Catholic Religious Statues; St. Scholastica Virgin
February 10
Norcia, Perugia, ca. 480 - Montecasino, Frosinone, ca. 547
It is evening now, that February 7 of the year 547, when Saint Benedict of Norcia gets up to conclude his annual meeting with his sister, Saint Scholastica, in that little house under Montecasino, halfway between the monasteries of the two brothers. But the woman wanted her spiritual conversation with her brother to be prolonged and burst into tears: a sudden thunderstorm would fulfill her desire, which, as Gregory the Great notes in his """"Dialogues"""" was born of a deep love. A love for the Gospel and for the example of her brother: Scholastica, in fact, born in Norcia in 480, had walked together with Benedict towards the monastic religious life. And in her life is enclosed the contribution of the female world to the birth of Western monasticism. Scholastica is known to us from the """"Dialogues"""" of Saint Gregory the Great. Wise Virgin, she put charity and pure contemplation before simple human rules and institutions, as she manifested in her last conversation with her brother St. Benedict, when with the strength of prayer """"she could more, because she loved more"""".
Patronage: Sisters
Emblem: Dove, Lily
Memory of the deposition of St. Scholastica, virgin, who, sister of St. Benedict, consecrated to God from childhood, had together with her brother such a communion in God, that once a year at Monte Cassino in Latium she spent a whole day in the praises of God and in sacred conversation.
February 10
Norcia, Perugia, ca. 480 - Montecasino, Frosinone, ca. 547
It is evening now, that February 7 of the year 547, when Saint Benedict of Norcia gets up to conclude his annual meeting with his sister, Saint Scholastica, in that little house under Montecasino, halfway between the monasteries of the two brothers. But the woman wanted her spiritual conversation with her brother to be prolonged and burst into tears: a sudden thunderstorm would fulfill her desire, which, as Gregory the Great notes in his """"Dialogues"""" was born of a deep love. A love for the Gospel and for the example of her brother: Scholastica, in fact, born in Norcia in 480, had walked together with Benedict towards the monastic religious life. And in her life is enclosed the contribution of the female world to the birth of Western monasticism. Scholastica is known to us from the """"Dialogues"""" of Saint Gregory the Great. Wise Virgin, she put charity and pure contemplation before simple human rules and institutions, as she manifested in her last conversation with her brother St. Benedict, when with the strength of prayer """"she could more, because she loved more"""".
Patronage: Sisters
Emblem: Dove, Lily
Memory of the deposition of St. Scholastica, virgin, who, sister of St. Benedict, consecrated to God from childhood, had together with her brother such a communion in God, that once a year at Monte Cassino in Latium she spent a whole day in the praises of God and in sacred conversation.
