CONTENTS Introduction 3 I. How Benet made a broken sieve whole and sound 5 II. How he overcame a great temptation of the Flesh 11 III. How Benet, by the sign of the Cross, brake a drinking-glass in pieces 15 IV. How Benet reformed a monk that would not stay at his prayers 25 V. Of a fountain that sprang forth on the top of a mountain, by the prayers of the man of God 28 VI. How the iron head of a bill from the bottom of the water returned to the handle again 31 VII. How Maurus walked upon the water 33 VIII. How a loaf was poisoned, and carried far off by a crow 36 IX. How venerable Benet, by his prayer, removed a huge stone 45 X. Of the fantastical fire which burned the kitchen 47 XI. How venerable Benet revived a boy crushed to death with the ruin of a wall 49 XII. How, by revelation, venerable Benet knew that his monks had eaten out of the monastery 51 XIII. Of the brother of Valentinian the monk, whom the man of God blamed for eating on his journey 53 XIV. How the dissimulation of King Totila was discovered and found out by Venerable Benet 56 XV. How Venerable Benet prophesied to King Totila, and also to the Bishop of Canosa, such things as were afterwards to fall out 59 XVI. Of a certain clergyman, whom Venerable Benet for a time delivered from a devil 62 XVII. How the man of God, Benet, did foretell the suppression of one of his own Abbeys 68 XVIII. How blessed Benet knew the hiding away of a flagon of wine 70 XIX. How the man of God knew that one of his monks had received certain handkerchiefs 72 XX. How holy Benet knew the proud thought of one of his monks 74 XXI. Of two hundred bushels of meal found before the man of God's cell 76 XXII. How, by vision, Venerable Benet disposed the building of the Abbey of Terracina 79 XXIII. Of certain nuns absolved after their death 83 XXIV. Of a boy that, after his burial, was cast out of his grave 88 XXV. How a Monk, forsaking the Abbey, met with a dragon in the way 90 XXVI. How holy Benet cured a boy of the leprosy 92 XXVII. How Benet found money miraculously to relieve a poor man 93 XXVIII. How a cruet of glass was thrown upon the stones, and not broken 95 XXIX. How an empty barrel was filled with oil 97 XXX. How Benet delivered a Monk from a devil 99 XXXI. Of a country fellow, that, with the only sight of the man of God was loosed from his bonds 102 XXXII. How by prayer Venerable Benet raised up a dead child 106 XXXIII. Of a miracle wrought by his Sister Scholastica 109 XXXIV. How Benet saw the soul of his Sister ascend into Heaven 113 XXXV. How he saw the whole world represented before his eyes ; and also the soul of Germanus, Bishop of Capua, ascending to Heaven 114 XXXVI. How holy Benet wrote a rule for his monks 119 XXXVII. How Venerable Benet did prophesy to his monks the time of his own death 120 XXXVIII. How a mad woman was cured in his cave 123 List of Illustrations How St. Benet passed away in his oratory Frontispiece How St. Benet made a broken sieve whole facing 6 How Brother Maurus walked on the water and saved Brother Placidus 34 St. Benet commands the crow to carry away the poisoned loaf 38 How St. Benet quenched the fantastical fire 48 How St. Benet discovered the deception of King Totila 56 How the devil disguised as a physician met St. Benet 100 How St. Benet discoursed for the last time with St. Scholastica 110 Digitized by Google.

St. Benedict's "biography, as here printed, is taken from the second of the four books of The Dialogues of S. Gregorie ... Translated into our English tongue, by P.W. Printed at Paris, 1608."

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