Scholastica (c. 480 - 10 February 543) is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Born in Italy, according to the ninth century tradition, he is a twin brother of Benedict of Nursia. His holiday is February 10th.
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According to the Dialogue of Gregory the Great, Scholastica was born c. 480 in Nursia, Umbria, from rich parents, Anicius Eupropius and his wife Claudia Abondantia Reguardati. While Gregory states that Scholastica was a sister of Benedict, a later tradition, saying he was his twin brother. Whether this is either biologically or allegorically (spiritual) or both is not clear. Gregory the Great said that he was dedicated to God from a young age. He and his brother Benedict grew up together until the time he left to continue his studies in Rome.
A young Roman woman of class and time of Scholastica is likely to remain in her father's house until marriage (perhaps arranged) or into religious life. But rich women can inherit property, divorce, and are generally literate. Sometimes some young women will live together in the household and form a religious community.
Benedictine tradition states that Scholastica founded a hermitage about five miles from Monte Cassino and that this was the first "Benedictine" monastery. However, it has been suggested that he is likely to live in a hermitage with one or two other religious women in a group of houses at the foot of Mount Cassino where there is an ancient church named after him (Monastero di Santa Scolastica) . Ruth Clifford Engs notes that because the Dialogue shows that Scholastica dedicated to God at an early age, perhaps he stayed at his father's house with other religious women until his death and then moved closer to Benedict.
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The most often told story about him is that he will, once a year, go and visit his brother at a place near the monastery, and they will spend the day worshiping together and discussing sacred texts and problems.
One day they had dinner and continued their conversation. When Benedict declared it was time to leave, perhaps feeling the time of his death approaching, Scholastica asked him to stay with him for the night so they could continue their discussion. Not wanting to break his own Rule, Benedict refused, insisting that he needed to return to his cell. At that moment, Scholastica closed his hands in prayer, and after a while, a wild storm began outside the guest house where they were housed. Benedict asked, "What have you done?", He replied, "I asked you and you did not listen, so I asked my God and he listened. So now off you go, if you can, leave me and go back to your monastery. "Benedict could not return to his monastery, and they spent the night in the discussion.
Three days later, from his cell, he saw the soul of his brother leave the earth and ascend to heaven in the form of a shining white dove. Benedict took his body to his monastery, where he caused it to be placed in the tomb he had prepared for himself.
Anglo-Saxon bishop and cleric Aldhelm tells the story in both De Laude Virginitatis written for the nuns in Barking, and in the shorter period Carmen de virginitate .
Study
What is known about Scholastica comes from Dialogue from Gregory the Great. Pearse A. Cusack argues that he is a literary discovery on Gregory's part to show that love replaces the law. The initial calendar and place names in the area around Monte Cassino show that he does exist. The names of Gregory as the source of four contemporaries of Benedict. Caesarius of Arles, writes virginum Rule (Rule for the Virgin), the first rule made for women living in the community, for his sister, Caesaria.
Legacy
Scholastica is the founder of the women's branch of Benedictine Monasticism.
He was chosen as the main motive for a high-value commemorative coin: Austria EUR50 'The Christian Religious Orders', issued March 13, 2002. On the front side (head) Scholastica coins are depicted alongside Benedict. In iconography, Scholastica is often represented as a monk, in black habits and holding a book or a dove.
Scholastica is the patron saint of nuns, education, and children who are seizures, and called against storms and rain. The warning is February 10th.
See also
- List of Catholic saints
- Benedictine
- The St Scholastica Day riots
References
External links
- Whatley, E. Gordon, Thompson, Anne B., and Upchurch, Robert K. "The Life of St. Scholastica: Introduction", The Life of the Saints in Central English Collection , The Century Mid Publication Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2004
- Adrienne von Speyr, "The Book of All Saints: Scholastica?, pp. 347-349 San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2008.
- Butler, Alban. "St. Scholastica", The Lives or the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principals, Vol.I, D. & amp; J. Sadlier, & amp; Company, 1864
- Foley O.F.M., Leonard, "Saint Scholastica", Saint of the Day , Franciscan Media
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