Benedictines
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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