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Benedict of Nursia, son of a nobleman and a student of rhetoric and law in fifth-century Rome, was afraid for his soul. Alarmed at the
dissolute citizens of a wicked city - and mindful, perhaps, that the floundering empire was in the hands of a heretic Goth - he abandoned his studies, renounced his inheritance, and set out to live a life of prayerful contemplation in a mountain
Fcave near Subiaco, 35 miles to the east.
ifteen centuries after Benedict wrote his
Rule for Monks from the abbey he founded in Monte Cassino, Italy, thus laying the cornerstone of Western Christian monasticism, ten-year-old Danny Lane discovered a small figurine of a monk in Halpin’s Drug Store in the Spokane Valley.
It was little more than a tchotchke; a mass- produced ceramic trinket. But he was fascinated. “I responded to that image; that icon,” he recalls. “I knew then that I wanted to become a monk.”
Cover | Detail of Mary, the Teacher by Brother Claude Lane, OSB
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