-- Collect (oratio) in ms. [transcribed and completed]:
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Deus, qui beátae Vírginis tuæ Scholásticæ ánimam ad ostendéndam [innocéntiæ viam in colúmbæ spécie cælum penetráre fecísti: da nobis eius méritis et précibus ita innocénter vivere; ut ad ætérna mereámur gáudia perveníre. Per Dóminum.]
Prayer: O God, to show us where innocence leads, you made the soul of your virgin Saint Scholastica soar to heaven like a dove in flight. Grant through her merits and her prayers that we may so live in innocence as to attain to joys everlasting. This we ask through our Lord.
-- Saint Scholastica was the abbess of Plumbariola, the first "Benedictine" convent.
-- Santa Scolastica, Subiaco, is the site of the first printing press in Italy, established there in 1463. The monastery is at the foot of the hill that supports the cave to which Saint Benedict withdrew. Another monastery, del Sacro Speco, protects and surrounds the sacred shrine of the Benedictines near the summit.
