St. ScholasticaSt. Scholastica (480-543), sister of St. Benedict, consecrated her life to God from her earliest youth. After her brother went to Monte Cassino, where he established his famous monastery, she took up her abode in the neighborhood at Plombariola, where she founded and governed a monastery of nuns, about five miles from that of St. Benedict, who, it appears, also directed his sister and her nuns.

She visited her brother once a year, and as she was not allowed to enter his monastery, he went in company with some of his brethren to meet her at a house some distance away. These visits were spent in conferring together on spiritual matters.

On one occasion they had passed the time as usual in prayer and pious conversation and in the evening they sat down to take their reflection. St. Scholastica begged her brother to remain until the next day. St. Benedict refused to spend the night outside his monastery. She had recourse to prayer and a furious thunderstorm burst so that neither St. Benedict nor any of his companions could return home. They spent the night in spiritual conferences. The next morning they parted to meet no more on earth.

Three days later St. Scholastica died, and her holy brother beheld her soul in a vision as it ascended into heaven. He sent his brethren to bring her body to his monastery and laid it in the tomb he had prepared for himself. She died about the year 543, and St. Benedict followed her soon after. Her feast day is February 10th.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. What a wonderful Saint she is; wanting to be close to her Holy Brother St. Benedict, what honor did she show him by following in his footsteps and devoting herself to the service of the Lord. Pray for me St Scholastica of Plombariola.

  2. Saint Scholastica, pray for us. Guide my twin sons to holiness. Let their brother and their sister remain united to them in fraternal love throughout their lives. Protect us all from storms, natural disasters, plagues, infectious diseases, famine, war. Bring peace, truth, faith, hope, charity to those who seek Christ Crucified. Bless the sanctity and unmatched power of the consecrated virginal life. Amen.

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