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Saint Scholastica in a black habit, holding a book and palm, painted by Andrea Mantegna about 1453

Saint Scholastica

Sister of Benedict, whose prayer brought a storm to keep him with her through the night

Western calendar
10 February
Orthodox calendar
Not kept

Scholastica was the sister of Saint Benedict, born at Nursia, and nearly all we know of her comes from Gregory the Great. She led a community of women under her brother's Rule near Monte Cassino, and once a year the two met in a little house between their monasteries to speak of God. At their last meeting she begged him to stay the night, and when he refused she wept and prayed until a storm broke and kept him there, and she told him, "See, I have asked you, and He has answered me"; three days later Benedict saw her soul rise to heaven as a dove, and laid her in the tomb he had made for himself.

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