Saint Benedict

MABUHAY!

Today, I want to talk about Saint Benedict. It is his feast day.



Born: c.480 Norcia (Umbria, Italy)
Died: 543 (aged 63) Monte Cassino
Honored in: Roman Catholicism, Anglican Communion, Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheran Church
Canonized: 1220, Rome by Pope Honorius III
Major shrine: Monte Cassino Abbey, with his burial Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, near Orléans, France
Sacro Speco, at Subiaco, Italy

Feast: July 11 (Roman Catholic calendar of saints), (Anglican Communion), March 14 (Byzantine Rite), March 21 (on local calendars and in the General Roman Calendar of 1962)
Attributes
-Bell
-Broken tray
-Broken cup and serpent representing poison
-Broken utensil
-Bush
-Crosier
-Man in a Benedictine cowl holding Benedict's rule or a rod of discipline
-Raven

Patron of:
-Against poison
-Against witchcraft
-Agricultural workers
-Cavers
-Civil engineers
-Coppersmiths
-Dying people
-Erysipelas
-Europe
-Farmers
-Fever
-Gall stones
-Heerdt (Germany)
-the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest
-Inflammatory diseases
-Italian architects
-Kidney disease
-Monks
-Nettle rash
-Norcia (Italy)
-People in religious orders
-Schoolchildren
-Servants who have broken their master's belongings
-Speliologists
-Spelunkers
-Temptations

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_of_Nursia

The Saint Benedict Medal (normally goes on the back of a scapular)





Saint Benedict, pray for us!