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Memorial of Saint Scholastica, virgin
St. Scholastica
Feastday: February 10
d.543
St. Scholastica, 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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