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BENE 01 | VIDEO 2 PROF. NOEL SANTANDER | 1ST Semester | School Year 2024-2025 For 1 ,500 years, Benedictine monks have framed Benedict died as his brothers raised his arms in all of their lives, all of their being around a tiny set one fin...

BENE 01 | VIDEO 2 PROF. NOEL SANTANDER | 1ST Semester | School Year 2024-2025 For 1 ,500 years, Benedictine monks have framed Benedict died as his brothers raised his arms in all of their lives, all of their being around a tiny set one final prayer, as he passed from this life. From of guidelines. The rule. But where did the rule this seed, Benedictine monasticism spread come from? Who is Saint Benedict? Born in the year 480 to Roman nobles, Benedict of Norcia throughout Europe. As the barbarian invasions was raised in a time of upheaval. wreaked havoc, Benedictine monks set about tirelessly deciphering and copying texts, clinging The Roman Empire had fallen, and licentiousness to the Christian call as civilization developed and conflict ruled the day. Disillusioned during his around them. studies, he struck out from Rome entering the wild, seeking solitude. In his youth, he had Through their work and prayer, they retained a already performed miracles, the simple mending culture that as the tumultuousness of society began of a plate, a sign of greater things to come. to calm, would be planted once again and nourished by monastic roots. Today, Saint Benedict is hailed as Traveling alone to the east, traversing the the father of Western monasticism. Apennine Mountains, he came upon a cave at Subiaco. There, he lived as a hermit, sustained He is the patron saint of Europe and the holy father only by the secret kindness of the monk, Saint of the Benedictine Order. What would Western Romanus, who lowered bread by a rope to civilization look like without Saint Benedict? It is Benedict's cliffside hole. impossible to say, but for more than 1 ,500 years, monks across the world have carried on his great After battling temptation in the Devil for three work, forever living out his directive that in all things years in his mountain cave, a group of monks God may be glorified. pleaded with him to lead their community. Over time, the monks grew to resent his radical way of life, and sought to dispose of him by poisoning his wine. Upon blessing the wine, the glass shattered, and the monks' treachery was revealed. Saint Benedict departed again to seek God alone in the wilderness. As time wore on, he sought to share his love of Christ with others, founding twelve monasteries, ultimately settling in Monte Cassino. He began writing a set of principles for his monks to live by, having the knowledge of a life of seeking Christ, thus was born. the rule. At the base of Monte Cassino, St. Benedict's twin sister, St. Scholastica established the first Benedictine community of women. At the age of 67, St. Benedict was struck with a fever. Knowing his hour was approaching, he summoned monks to pray by his side, and on March 21st, 547, St. 1  BENE 01 | VIDEO 2 PROF. NOEL SANTANDER | 1ST Semester | School Year 2024-2025 In the year 1895 on the 12th of September, The monks realized later on that in order for the thirteen Spanish Benedictine monks, headed by school to grow, they had to look for a new location Abbot Jose Deas y Villar from the Abbey of with bigger space. A 7 hectare piece of land along Montserrat in Spain, arrived in the Philippines. Mendiola Street at the nearby San Miguel district was bought for the new campus. On their arrival, they stayed for a while with the Jesuit community in Sta. Ana, Manila. The cornerstone of the main building (St. Bede's Hall) was laid on September 15, 1925 and was The original plan was to do mission work in the solemnly inaugurated on June 20, 1926, province of Surigao in northern Mindanao, south coinciding with the silver jubilee of the school. of the Philippines. The monks worked on the missions in Surigao that were turned over to them The Abbey Church was consecrated on January by the Jesuits. 13, 1926. Due to the outbreak of the 1896 Revolution, they were left with no choice but to go to Manila. The monks turned over the missions to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in 1909. The monks eventually acquired a house on Balmes St., Tanduay, in the district of Quiapo, Manila, on April 25, 1896. Fr. Juan Sabater, OSB, then superior of the Benedictines, thought of counteracting the influence of the public schools established by the American government and the American Protestant missionaries. The idea of establishing an educational institution which offers elementary and high school classes and a boarding school for boys was formulated. Coupled with this was the need of sustaining the monastic community with suitable apostolate for its members. The Benedictine monks had a schoolhouse ready at the corner of Arlegui and Tanduay streets for the opening of classes on June 17, 1901. The school opened with 212 students taking primaria enseñanza and secundaria enseñanza, the equivalent respectively of grade school and high school with the first two years of college. Colegio de San Beda, was inaugurated with Fr. Silvestre Jofre, OSB, as first Rector. 2