July 11
On this day the Catholic Church remembers
St. Benedict

St. Benedict

abbot, patron of Europe · c. 480 – 547
Listen, my son, to the master's instructions, and incline the ear of your heart.
— Rule, Prologue

He left noisy Rome for a cave at Subiaco, and from that silence came a work that outlived the fall of an empire. His monasteries saved Europe's books and its agriculture. Great things grow out of listening.

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