St. Benedict
What was the approximate date of St. Benedict and Monasticism?
c. 540
Why did monasteries become the centers of learning?
The Roman Empire and its cities declined, but the
monasteries developed schools to educate people.
What are the first two cards of our History?
St. Augustine Converts to Christianity
Vikings and Barbarians
Why did St. Anthony and other Christians move into the desert around the third century?
They wanted to follow Christ’s demand for self
denial, and so they separated themselves from
the world.
How was literature from the ancient world preserved?
By manuscripts preserved and transmitted from
monasteries
When was St. Augustine Converted, when was he baptized?
386 A.D. ; 387 A.D.
What were the men referred to as who lived in monasteries?
Monks
Who was St. Augustine? What did he write?
A monk, priest and Bishop of Hippo in North
Africa, Confessions and The City of God
What were the Vikings like? Where were they originally from?
Fair-hair and Fair-skinned people, violent sea-farers who plundered different lands;
they came from Scandinavia
Who introduced “rules for monasteries” around 540?
St. Benedict
What caused the end of the influence of the barbarians and Vikings?
Mohammed II conquered Constantinople.
What question did The Council of Chalcedon resolve?
Whether Christ was also truly man, and whether
he could be both God and man in one person
List and describe the three vows that monks took?
The Vow of Poverty: monks could own no personal
property; The Vow of Chastity: monks could not
marry; The Vow of Obedience: monks must submit to the rules, the abbot and the monk community
What was the Vulgate? Who wrote it?
The Latin translation of the Bible, St. Jerome
What are cards 3, 4, and 5 of our History and dates
St. Jerome Completes the Vulgate (405)
Council of Chalcedon (451)
St. Benedict and Monasticism (540)