The Life of St. Benedict by St. Gregory

Author:St. Gregory [Gregory, St.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-12-07T05:00:00+00:00

The Two Hundred Measures of Meal Found Before the Monastery Gates

At another time, also in the country of Campania, began a great famine, and all people suffered from great scarcity of food, so that all the wheat in Benedict’s monastery was used, and likewise almost all the bread, so that but five loaves remained for the brethren’s refection. When the venerable Father perceived them sad, he endeavored by a mild and gentle reproach to reprehend their pusillanimity and with fair promises to comfort them, saying, “Why is your soul sad for want of bread? Today you are in want, but tomorrow you shall have plenty.” The next day there were found two hundred sacks of meal before the monastery gates; by whom God Almighty sent it, as yet no man knoweth. Which, when the monks beheld, they gave thanks to God.

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