[Gunrunner2]

According to Dr Thomas E. Woods, Jr., author of How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, St Benedict of Nursia established twelve small communities of monks, to include Monte Cassiono. Further, "unlike the Irish monasteries, which were known for their extremes of self-denial. . .Benedictine monasteries took for granted that the monk was to receive adequate food and sleep. . ." And "The Benedictine monk typically lived as a material level comparable to that of a contemporary Italian peasant."

These monasteries rejected the "hermit" life

Again, from the book, "Cenobitic monasticism (monks living together in monasteries), the kind with which most people are familiar, developed in part as a reaction against the life of the hermits and in recognition that men ought to live in community."

Please let me know if this is the same St Benedict (a hermit) you refer to, as I wish to be clear.

[Teófilo]

Please let me know if this is the same St Benedict (a hermit) you refer to, as I wish to be clear.

They are one and the same.

-Theo