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Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured.

Benedict of Nursia

We are therefore about to establish a school of the Lord's service in which we hope to introduce nothing harsh or burdensome.

Benedict of Nursia

Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.

Benedict of Nursia

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia

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Born: March 2, 480

Died: March 21, 547 (aged 67)

Bio: Benedict of Nursia is a Christian saint, who is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Catholic Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion and Old Catholic Churches. St. Benedict is the patron saint of Europe and students.

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