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- History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information about Saint Benedict of Anian
- Fast, concise facts and information
- Date of Birth and Death
- Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Benedict of Anian
- Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
- Description / Title of the Saint : Author of the rules of St. Benedict
Saint Benedict of Anian Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Benedict of Anian
The following provides fast and concise facts and information: - Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Benedict of Anian: February 12
- Description / Title of the Saint : Author of the rules of St. Benedict
- Date of Birth: Saint Benedict of Anian was born c750
- Date of Death: Saint Benedict of Anian died February 11, 821
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The Story and History of Saint Benedict of Anian
The story and history of Saint Benedict of Anian. Benedict was the son of Aigulf, Governor of Languedoc, and was born about 750. In his early youth he served as cup-bearer to King Pepin and his son Charlemagne, enjoying under them great honors and possessions. Grace entered his soul at the age of twenty, and he resolved to reek the kingdom of God with his whole heart. Without relinquishing his place at court, he lived there a most mortified life for three years; then a narrow escape from drowning made him vow to quit the world, and he entered the cloister of St. Seine.
In reward for his heroic austerities in the monastic state, God bestowed upon him the gift of tears, and inspired him with a knowledge of spiritual things. As procurator, he was most careful of the wants of the brethren, and most hospitable to the poor and to guests. Declining to accept the abbacy, he built himself a little hermitage on the brook Anian, and lived some years in great solitude and poverty; but the fame of his sanctity drawing many souls around him, he was obliged to build a large abbey, and within a short time governed three hundred monks.
He became the great restorer of monastic discipline throughout France and Germany. First, he drew up with immense labor a code of the rules of St. Benedict, his great namesake, which he collated with those of the chief monastic founders, showing the uniformity of the exercises in each, and enforced by his "Penitential" their exact observance; secondly, he minutely regulated all matters regarding food, clothing, and every detail of life; and thirdly, by prescribing the same for all, he excluded jealousies and insured perfect charity. In a Provincial Council held in 813, under Charlemagne, at which he was present, it was declared that all monks of the West should adopt the rule of St. Benedict. He died February 11, 821. Feast Day of Saint Benedict of Anian
The Feast Day of Saint Benedict of Anian is February 12. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven. |
Saint Benedict of Anian- Short, concise biography of Saint Benedict of Anian
- History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
- Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Benedict of Anian
- Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Benedict of Anian - February 12
- History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
- Date of Death: February 11, 821
- Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Benedict of Anian
- Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
- Description / Title of the Saint : Author of the rules of St. Benedict
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