Benedict didn’t think it was a good idea but consented he was right, though, and the monks eventually tried to poison him.
The monks of a monastery nearby were so inspired by his apparent holiness that they asked him to become their abbot. He wound up living for three years as a hermit in a cave above a lake outside what is now the town of Affile.
And when I write that he left, I mean he really left. He was deeply disappointed by the life he found there he disliked both the greed he found among the Roman nobility and also the triviality of learning rhetoric for no other reason than to be superficially persuasive. Being the son of a Roman noble places certain expectations on a person, and, as a young man, Benedict was sent to Rome to study. He was born in the late 5th century, the son of a Roman noble. Saint Benedict is a saint I particularly love (he’s a saint a lot of folks love, truly a giant of both Catholic and Orthodox Christianity), and his feast day is coming up on the 11th. And if, flying from the pains of hell, we desire to reach life everlasting, then, while there is yet time, and we are still in the flesh, and are able during the present life to fulfill all these things, we must make haste to do now what will profit us forever.” - The Rule of Saint Benedict Our hearts and our bodies must, therefore, be ready to do battle under the biddings of holy obedience and let us ask the Lord that He supply by the help of His grace what is impossible to us by nature. ““Now, brethren, that we have asked the Lord who it is that shall dwell in His tabernacle, we have heard the conditions for dwelling there and if we fulfil the duties of tenants, we shall be heirs of the kingdom of heaven.
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