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Welcome back to Form Now.

I'm Dr. Elizabeth Klein.

I'm here with Dr. Jessica Murdoch.

We both teach here at the Augustine Institute.

And we're doing a series on holy women you've never heard of.

So some more obscure female saints from the tradition who we both admire and like

and would like to spread their cult

and share love of these saints. So this episode is on St. Scholastica, the sister of St. Benedict,

she lived in the fifth century, so it was born around 480 and died around 542. So the previous

two saints, Macrina and Mary Egypt, were saints that I picked.

And Scholastica is a saint that Dr. Murdoch picked.

So I'm going to let her kick it off telling us a little bit about St. Scholastica.

Well, we don't know a whole lot about St. Scholastica, but as you said, she was actually the twin sister of St. Benedict of Nersia.

So she too was born to nobles in Nersia, and she loved God intensely from childhood.

She was really taken by her brother's holy example. And when he left, he left to study in Rome,

and then eventually St. Benedict founded you know, founded his monastery and

wrote his rule. And she was so impressed by this that she endeavored to become a hermit,

living at the foot of the mountain of her brother's monastery, actually. Well, that's really interesting

because, so just to remind people a little bit of St. Benedict. So St. Benedict is, of course,

really well-known, like, Patriot State of Europe,

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