The Devotion of St. Thomas

From the age of five to 16, he lived as a boy oblate in the monastery of Monte Cassino. He decided to take the habit to enter their ranks but his family wasn't happy about it. The height of their discouragement came in the form of introducing a prostitute into the room where he slept. They thought if they could get him to fall in chastity, they would discourage him from his plan.