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Rule of Saint Benedict

Rule of Saint Benedict

The Rule of Saint Benedict is a book of precepts written in 516 by Benedict of Nursia for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot.


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“There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.”

Rule of Saint Benedict (516 AD), as edited by Timothy Fry, O. S. B (1981), p. 15

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