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Benedictines carry on a tradition that stems from the origin of the Christian monastic movement in the third century. St. Benedict (ca. 480-ca. 550) was born at Nursia and educated at Rome. About the year 500, the condition of contemporary society led him to withdraw to a cave at nearby Subiaco where a community gradually grew up around him. In 525 he moved with a small band of monks to Monte Cassino where he remained until his death. It was here (ca. 540) that he drew up his plan for the reform of monasticism and composed a rule for his monks, mostly laymen. This rule, which reflected contemporary practice, was for almost two centuries merely one of several from which abbots could choose. Meanwhile, the rule found its way to monasteries in England, Gaul, and elsewhere, becoming the rule of choice for monasteries of Europe from the ninth century onward.

The fifteenth century saw the beginning of a new form of Benedictine life, that is, the congregation, which gave rise to more regular life in their monasteries. All the houses of Italy and Sicily eventually joined the congregation, which with the accession of Monte Cassino in 1504 called itself the Cassinese Congregation. The reform movement that followed spread to the formation of many other confederations.

The bond joining Benedictine monks has been in the main a spiritual rather than an organizational one. The Order of St. Benedict signifies not a centralized institute but a confederation of congregations of monks and nuns following the rule of Benedict. Each monastery is autonomous with no juridical ties to the rest of the confederation.

From the description of Benedettini, 1708-1800. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 145567930
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referencedIn Medieval miscellaneous documents 1200-1490 Museum of New Mexico Library
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referencedIn Garrido, Venancio, 1810-1870. Letter, 1867 Nov. 21 [manuscript]. Libraries Australia
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referencedIn Religion -- Benedictines. Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library
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referencedIn Catholic Church. Congregatio super Statu Regularium. Relationes, ca. 1640-1650. Bentley Historical Library
creatorOf Catholic Church. Antiphonal : Manuscript, Perugia, [1450-1475]. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
referencedIn Federation of Saint Benedict. Records, 1947-[ongoing]. Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict
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referencedIn Torres, Fulgentius, 1861-1914. Diaries, 1906-1908 [microform]. Libraries Australia
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referencedIn Hill Monastic Manuscript Library. Hill Monastic manuscript [microform]. Florida State University
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referencedIn Monasterium Sanctae Crucis. Inventarium omnium et singulorum bonorum iurisdictionum, et reddituum spettantium ad venerabilem monasterium Sante Crucis terre Saponarie ordinis santi Benedetti : manuscript, 1654. University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library
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referencedIn American Benedictine Academy. Convention (1980). Papers delivered at 1980 Convention of the American Benedictine Academy. Conception Abbey & Seminary Library
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referencedIn Monasterio de San Martín (Madrid). Libro de misas del Monasterio de San Martín, de Madrid [Manuscrito]. Biblioteca Nacional de España, Biblioteca Nacional - Madrid
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referencedIn Bérengier, Théophile, 1827-1897. Historical sketch of Western monachism / by Theophilus Berengier ; trans. by Basil Stegmann. Clemens & Alcuin Libraries @ College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University, Clemens & Alcuin Libraries
referencedIn Starr, Ellen Gates. Papers 1659-1975 bulk 1850-1970. Smith College, Neilson Library
creatorOf Catholic Church. [Breviary of the Abbey of Silos] [microform]. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
referencedIn Benedictine Community of New Norcia. Records, 1814-1978 [microform]. Libraries Australia
referencedIn Baker, Augustine, 1575-1641. [Instructions for the monastic life], [ca. 1660-1670]. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
referencedIn Canto y Sandoval, Manuel del (O.S.B.). Ordo perpetuus recitandi ac Missas celebrandi pro omnibus vtriusque sexus sub Regula & in Congregatione S.S. P.N. Benedicti in Hispaniarum Regnis militantibus [Texto impreso] : iuxta ritum Breviarii ac Missalis Monastici Pauli V... auctoritate recognitum: cum festis sanctorum... [Emma]nuel del Canto & Sandoval... Biblioteca Nacional de España, Biblioteca Nacional - Madrid
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creatorOf Rauscher, Romanus. Octo libri physicorum : manuscript, 1638 / ab admodum reverendo religioso et doctissimo P[atre] F. Romano Rauscher Ordinis S[ancti] Benedicti. University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library
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