Today's memorial is St. Benedict, who is the founder of the Benedictine Monastery. He lived in the 5th century. He established guidelines on how to live a monastic life, and it attracted many people to that lifestyle. A story was told that someone who had hate in his heart poisoned his drink, but when he made the sign of the cross, the glass broke and fell in pieces to the ground. Another story, a peasant, whose boy had just died, ran in anguish to Benedict, crying out, “Give me back my son!” The monks joined the poor man in his entreaties; but the Saint replied, “Such miracles are not for us to work, but for the blessed apostles. Why will you lay upon me a burden which my weakness cannot bear?” Moved at length by compassion he knelt down and, prostrating himself upon the body of the child, prayed earnestly. Then rising, he cried out, “Behold not, O Lord, my sins, but the faith of this man, who desires the life of his son, and restore to the body that soul which you have taken away.” Hardly had he spoken when the child’s body began to tremble, and taking it by the hand he restored it alive to its father. Six days before his death he ordered his grave to be opened, and fell ill of a fever. On the sixth day he requested to be carried into the chapel, and, having received the body and blood of Christ, with hands uplifted, and leaning on one of his disciples, he calmly died in prayer on the 21st of March, 543.