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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.”

Benedict of Nursia book Rule of Saint Benedict

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

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