Benedictines

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Saint Scholastica, Twin Sister of Saint Benedict of Nursia
Feast Day: February 10 Patron Saint of schools, nuns, Benedictines and invoked against storms and bad weather.
Iconography - Mount Angel Abbey
7/11: Saint Benedict (480?-543) - The motto of the Benedictines is "Ora et labora" meaning "pray and work!" Saint Benedict's Rule organized the monastic day into regular periods of communal and private prayer, sleep, spiritual reading, and manual labour – "ut in omnibus glorificetur Deus / that in all [things] God may be glorified." WELCOMING THE STRANGER
New Painted Works of St. Scholastica and St. Benedict