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...monks of the local monastery begged St. Benedict to become their abbot. But they were dissolute, and when he tried to discipline them, they tried to poison him. He returned to his cave. But disciples followed...
...this tower that the abbot wrote his famed work: the Rule of St. Benedict. This Rule shaped Western monasticism. The Rule brought order into the chaotic monasteries...
...turned Quaker. During World War I he became a British mail censor, was jailed after boasting how he had outsmarted Britain as a spy. Released an Anglophobe, he tried to help German militarists back into power, eventually sold out to France. In the mid-'20s Chinese Buddhist Abbot Chao Kung was identified as Trebitsch-Lincoln reincarnate, founder of the "League of Truth." In 1926 he was allowed to return to the side of his British soldier son Ignatius (a condemned murderer), lost his race with the hangman, repented of his wicked life. In 1938 he transcendentalized: "I am still...
...British soldiers or in other ways offended the Nazi invaders. One priest was starved in a small cell for 28 days. Nazis forced another priest to witness the slaughter of all his children and grandchildren† except one, then he and the last child were tortured and slain. One abbot was dragged out of his small monastery by his beard, shot dead. A priest at Herakleion Cathedral, accused of aiding the guerrillas, was stripped naked in the sanctuary, forced to dig his own grave, then shot. Most of these priests, said the Bishop, died murmuring prayers or singing the Greek...
Company Commander Ira Reese, with several years of active service in the Navy behind him, is the sea-dog among us. Sub-Commander Matt Stacom and Adjutant Clair Merritt, along with a majority of the men in this company, were classmates at Abbot Hall, Northwestern University...