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Life And Miracles of St. Benedict

(Book Two of the Dialogues)

Life And Miracles of St. Benedict

(Book Two of the Dialogues)

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Paperback / softback

£11.99

Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814603215
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 01/03/1949
Width: 9.5 cm
Height: 15.2 cm

A translation of the biography written by Pope Gregory the Great, this official biography is also known as the Second Book of Dialogues. It is the earliest and thus the most valuable biography of St. Benedict.

Contents
  1.  The mending of a broken tray   2
  2.  The saint overcomes a temptation of the flesh   7
  3.  A glass pitcher is shattered by the sign of the Cross   9
  4.  A monk is cured of wandering about during prayer   16
  5.  At the saint's word water streams down the mountainside   18
  6.  An iron blade is miraculously recovered from the water   19
  7.  One of Benedict's disciples walks on the water   20
  8.  A raven carries off a poisoned load of brad   22
  9.  A heavy rock is lightened by the saint's prayer   29
10.  Benedict's disciples imagine the kitchen is on fire   29
11.  A young monk is crushed under a wall and then restored to life   30
12.  Some monks disobey the Rule by eating outside the monastery   31
13.  Valentinian's brother is guilty of a similar offense   32
14.  King Totila's trickery fails   34
15.  The saint's prophecy about King Totila   36
16.  A cleric is freed from an evil spirit   38
17.  Benedict foretells the destruction of his monastery   43
18.  The saint is aware in spirit that a flask of wine has been stolen   44
19.  A monk accepts some handkerchiefs as a present   45
20.  The man of God reads a young monk's proud thoughts   46
21.  A generous supply of flour is discovered in front of the abbey during a famine   47
22.  Two monks learn in a vision how they are to build their monastery   49
23.  After death two nuns are freed from ex-communication through the saint's offertory gift   51
24.  A young monk whose body could not rest in its grave   55
25.  A dragon blocks a dissatisfied monk's departure from the abbey   56
26.  The cure of a leper   57
27.  The miraculous discovery of some money saves an unfortunate debtor   57
28.  A glass vessel strikes against the rocks without breaking   58
29.  An empty cask overflows with oil   60
30.  A monk is freed from an evil spirit   60
31.  A glance from the saint sets a captive free   62
32.  A dead boy is raised to life   64
33.  Scholastic's miracle   67
34.  Benedict sees the soul of his sister on its way to heaven   69
35.  The whole world is gathered up before the saint's eyes, and he beholds the soul of Bishop Germanus   70
36.  The Monastic Rule he wrote   74
37.  Benedict's disciples are forewarned of his death   74
38.  A woman is cured of insanity by stopping at the saint's cave   76


Gregory, J. Zimmermann, Benedict R. Avery, OSB

Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Catholic convert, Cistercian monk and hermit, poet, contemplative, social critic, and pioneer of interreligious dialogue, was a seminal figure of twentieth-century American Christianity. The one hundredth anniversary of his birth is being celebrated in 2015.