BENEDICTINE

liquor prepared at Wécamp, France. so called after St. Benedictine of Nursia, who established monasteries at Subiaco, Monte Ca ino (famous in annals of monasticism), and, before his death, twelve other places. When Monte Ca ino was taken by the Lombards (c. 590) the monks migrated to Rome. To this Order belonged St. Augustine, who evangelized England; offshoots were planted in Gaul and Germany; and by the VIII. cent. St. Benedict’s was the chief monastic rule in Europe. B’s, besides Chitiani.ing England ‘and Slavonic and Scand in avian peoples, did much educational work; they had many schools in the Middle Ages, as they have today. In the IX. cent their great monastery of Cluny (France) became of enormous importance in Europe, and le er houses were subordinated to it. ble ing), ecclesiastical term for the ble ing either of persons or of things, Among Protestants it is generally limited to the b. of the congregation by the minister at the close of the service, but among Catholics it is much more widely used. All sorts of things, water or oil used in worship, and places or buildings for purely secular use, receive b. Catholics b. is sacramental and believed to guard especially against evil spirits.