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Prayer: O God, to show us where innocence leads, you made the soul of your virgin Saint Scholastica soar to heaven like a dove in flight. Grant through her merits and her prayers that we may so live in innocence as to attain to joys everlasting.
Scholastica (/ s k ə ˈ l æ s t ɪ k ə /; c. 480 – 10 February 543) was an Italian Christian hermit and the sister of Benedict of Nursia. She is traditionally regarded as the foundress of the Benedictine nuns. Scholastica is honored as a saint of the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church and Anglican Communion.
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The Cistercians and Carthusians spread it by the use of these prayers in their monasteries, and women such as Marguerite d'Oyngt (d. 1310) and Mechthild of Hackeborn took it up. [ 5 ] In the description of her visions, Christ, the Virgin, and other members of the hierarchy of heaven enter as living realities.
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Aerial view of St. Scholastica's Abbey. The Abbey of Saint Scholastica, also known as Subiaco Abbey (Italian: Abbazia di Santa Scolastica), is located just outside the town of Subiaco in the Province of Rome, Region of Lazio, Italy; and is still an active Benedictine abbey, territorial abbey, first founded in the 6th century AD by Saint Benedict of Nursia.
St Scholastica was his sister, and by tradition was the first Benedictine nun. After 1808, during the French occupation of Rome , the church was looted of its artworks and desecrated. [ 2 ] In 1841, the church was restored and reopened, and underwent further restoration under Pope Pius IX and Pope Leo XIII . [ 3 ]
He was born at Sirimis, in the region of Cynegia, near Antioch.There was a flourishing college of lawyers at Antioch, where he entered and did himself credit.