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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Benedict of Aniane
DESCRIPTION:ST BENEDICT OF ANIANE \nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints \n◊◊◊ \nBenedict was the son of Aigulf of Maguelone and served King Pepin and \nhis son\, Charlemagne\, as cupbearer. At the age of twenty he made a resolution \nto seek the kingdom of God with his whole heart. He took part in the campaign \nin Lombardy\, but\, after having been nearly drowned in the river Tesino\, near \nPavia\, in endeavoring to save his brother\, he made a vow to quit the world \nentirely. \nUpon his return to Languedoc he was confirmed in this determination by \nthe advice of a hermit called Widmar\, and he went to the abbey of Saint-Seine\, \nfifteen miles from Dijon\, where he was admitted as a monk. He spent two and a \nhalf years here learning the monastic life and bringing himself under control by \nsevere austerities. Not satisfied with observing the rule of St Benedict\, he \npracticed those other points of perfection which he found prescribed in the \nRules of St Pachomius and St Basil. When the abbot died\, the brethren were \ndisposed to elect him to fill the post\, but he was unwilling to accept the charge \nbecause he knew that the monks were opposed to anything in the shape of \nsystematic reform. \nBenedict accordingly quitted Saint-Seine and\, returning to Languedoc\, \nbuilt a small hermitage beside the brook Aniane upon his own estate. Here he \nlived for some years in self-imposed destitution\, praying continually that God \nwould teach him to do His will. Some solitaries\, of whom the holy man Widmar \nwas one\, placed themselves under his direction\, and they earned their livelihood \nby manual labour\, living on bread and water except on Sundays and great \nfestivals when they added a little wine or milk if it was given them in alms. The \nsuperior worked with them in the fields and sometimes spent his time in \ncopying books. When the number of his disciples increased\, Benedict left to \nbuild a monastery in a more spacious place. \nIn a short time he had many religious under his direction\, and at the same \ntime exercised a general inspection over all the monasteries of Provence\, \nLanguedoc and Gascony\, becoming eventually the director and overseer of all \nthe monasteries in the empire; he reformed many with little or no opposition. \nIn order to have him close at hand\, the Emperor Louis the Pious obliged \nBenedict to dwell first at the abbey of Maurmünster in Alsace and then\, as he \nwanted him yet nearer\, he built a monastery upon the Inde\, later known as \nCornelimünster\, near Aachen\, the residence of the emperor and court. Benedict \nlived in the monastery yet continued to help in the restoration of monastic \nobservance throughout France and Germany. He was the chief instrument in \ndrawing up the canons for the reformation of monks at the council of Aachen in \n817\, and presided in the same year over the assembly of abbots to enforce the \nrestoration of discipline… \nThis great restorer of monasticism in the West\, worn out by \nmortifications and fatigues\, suffered much from continual sickness in the latter \npart of his days. He died at Inde with great tranquility in 821\, being then \nseventy one years of age.
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