"B is for Saint Benedict" alphabet coloring page

Saint Benedict, Abbot, Patriarch of all Western Monks, Founder
of the Order called Benedictine; Born in Nursia, in Italy, 480;
 Died at Monte Cassino, 543. Feast, March 21.

Description of Coloring Page: the letter B within the context of a sentence, Catholic children's coloring pages, Catholic Saint coloring, practice writing sheet, monk, offering communion, cave, cross, flowers and thorns, monk's habit, wilderness, two versions: one with a poem, original versions by Benson, Balfour, Ritchie and Symington

St. Benedict

for Saint Benedict, Hermit and Sage,

Whose Rule has been kept by most Monks since his age.

Cyrilla, his Governess, took him from home

To learn how to read at a day-school in Rome,

Where he went to his lessons with satchel and pen,

And rode back by the Tiber to supper again.

He loved contemplation so much that one day

He agreed with Cyrilla to run right away;

And for years in the mountains he fasted and prayed 

Till the praise of the neighbours made BENET afraid;

So he wandered and wandered, but stayed in the end

In a cave near ROMANUS the Monk, his good friend.

Before long many Monks gathered round him to pray,

And his Rule and his Monks are still mighty to-day.

O Blessed Saint BENET, I wish I could be

Half as good for one year as you were sixty-three.

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