St. Scholastica of Norcia -- Benedictine College, Atchison KS
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The statue of St. Scholastica of Norcia on the campus of Benedictine College, Atchison KS
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Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 11/27/2017
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This statue of St. Scholastica of Norcia stands on the campus of Benedictine College, at Atchison KS, near the student bookstore and residence halls.
A plaque at the statue reads as follows:
"ST. SCHOLASTICA OF NORCIA
480-547 A.D
"Hers was a greater love."
Book Two of the Dialogues
by Pope St. Gregory the Great
1863-2013
The 150th anniversary of the Benedictine Sisters."
St Scholastica is the sister of St. Benedict, the founder of the Benedictine monastic order. St. Scholastica founded a related monastic order of nuns known as the Benedictine Sisters. Their convent is on the other side of Atchison KS. The Benedictine Brothers arrived in KS and established a monastery in Atchison in 1857, and the Benedictine Sisters arrived and established their convent in 1863.
From Catholic.org: (
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"St. Scholastica
St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict, consecrated her life to God from her earliest youth. After her brother went to Monte Cassino, where he established his famous monastery, she took up her abode in the neighborhood at Plombariola, where she founded and governed a monastery of nuns, about five miles from that of St. Benedict, who, it appears, also directed his sister and her nuns. She visited her brother once a year, and as she was not allowed to enter his monastery, he went in company with some of his brethren to meet her at a house some distance away. These visits were spent in conferring together on spiritual matters. On one occasion they had passed the time as usual in prayer and pious conversation and in the evening they sat down to take their reflection. St. Scholastica begged her brother to remain until the next day. St. Benedict refused to spend the night outside his monastery. She had recourse to prayer and a furious thunderstorm burst so that neither St. Benedict nor any of his companions could return home. They spent the night in spiritual conferences. The next morning they parted to meet no more on earth. Three days later St. Scholastica died, and her holy brother beheld her soul in a vision as it ascended into heaven. He sent his brethren to bring her body to his monastery and laid it in the tomb he had prepared for himself. She died about the year 543, and St. Benedict followed her soon after. Her feast day is February 10th."