The Story of St. Benedict and St. Gregory the Great

Joseph Carter Rotser: What is it about St. Benedict that would lead Pope Benedict to kind of synthesize the, for his speech in Subiaco about this Benedict in spirituality? I think we see Benedict as a model, as all those saints, as models of this. If you look at Benedict's life, he was born about 480 AD and he was raised Catholic. And there he's shocked by the dissolute living. So he abandons the studies to go and pray, to work on his own spiritual life. Once he masters himself then other men start to come to him and ask him to be abbot.