Saint Benedict, founder of Western monasticism, was born in the Italian city of Nursia in the year 480. When he was fourteen years of age, the saint's parents sent him to Rome to study. Unsettled by ...

Benedict was born in Nursia in Italy and lived from about 480 to 550 AD ... bound together by a common rule of life. The Rule of St Benedict is essentially a simple and practical guide for daily ...

So committed are they to Norcia that they named their widely acclaimed beer, Birra Nursia, not after Benedict or another saint but after the town. Fortunately, the brewery was not destroyed in the ...

According to the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, Scholastica was born in Nursia, Umbria, to wealthy parents. While Gregory ...