Benedict's Rule

Examples of Benedict's Rule in the following topics:

• The Rise of the Monasteries

  • The Benedictines were founded by Benedict of Nursia, the most influential of western monks and called "the father of western monasticism."
  • By the 9th century, largely under the inspiration of Emperor Charlemagne, Benedict's Rule became the basic guide for Western monasticism.
  • The efficiency of Benedict's cenobitic Rule, in addition to the stability of the monasteries, made them very productive.
  • During the rule of Pope Innocent III (1198–1216), two of the most famous monastic orders were founded.
  • Saint Benedict, the founder of the Benedictine Monastic Rule, by Herman Nieg, Heiligenkreuz Abbey, Austria.

• The Catholic Church

  • In 530, Saint Benedict wrote his Rule of Saint Benedict as a practical guide for monastic community life, and its message spread to monasteries throughout Europe.

• Cistercian Architecture

  • This order was founded by a group of Benedictine monks from the monastery of Molesme in 1098, with the goal of more closely following the Rule of Saint Benedict.
  • Bernard saw much of church decoration as a distraction from piety, and the builders of the Cistercian monasteries had to adopt a style that observed the numerous rules inspired by his austere aesthetics, the order itself was receptive to the technical improvements of Gothic principles of construction and played an important role in its spread across Europe.

• Cathedrals

  • After the decline of the Roman Empire, the building of large churches in Western Europe gradually gained momentum with the spread of organized monasticism under the rule of Saint Benedict and others.

• Oxidation

  • Useful tests for aldehydes, Tollens' test, Benedict's test & Fehling's test, take advantage of this ease of oxidation by using Ag(+) and Cu(2+) as oxidizing agents (oxidants).
  • The Fehling and Benedict tests use cupric cation as the oxidant.

• Glucosuria

  • Glucose in urine can be identified by Benedict's qualitative test.

• The Western Schism

  • The French crown even tried to coerce Benedict XIII, whom it nominally supported, into resigning.
  • Eventually the cardinals of both factions secured an agreement that Benedict and Pope Gregory XII would meet at Savona.
  • The council, advised by the theologian Jean Gerson, secured the resignations of John XXIII and Gregory XII in 1415, while excommunicating the claimant who refused to step down, Benedict XIII.
  • Nonetheless, the Crown of Aragon did not recognize Martin V and continued to recognize Benedict XIII.
  • Archbishops loyal to Benedict XIII subsequently elected Antipope Benedict XIV (Bernard Garnier), and three followers simultaneously elected Antipope Clement VIII, but the Western Schism was by then practically over.

• Copper

  • Specifically, using Benedict's reagent and Fehling's solution, the presence of the sugar is signaled by a color change from blue copper(II) to reddish copper(I) oxide.

• Nigerian Art Post-Independence

  • The modern state of Nigeria originated from British colonial rule, beginning in the 19th century, and the merging of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and Northern Nigeria Protectorate in 1914.
  • The British set up administrative and legal structures while practicing indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms.
  • Odinigwe Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu (1917 – 1994), better known in the western world as Ben Enwonwu, was a premier Igbo Nigerian modernist painter, sculptor, and pioneer.

• The Eugenics Movement

  • Prior to the sterilization ruling in the Supreme Court, eugenicists had already played an important role in government policy by serving as expert advisers on the threat of "inferior stock" from eastern and southern Europe during the Congressional debate over immigration in the early 1920s.