The Motley Crew : Monastic Lives

Introduction: We Are a Motley Crew vii The Motley Crew The Father of Monasticism 3 The Father of Cenobitical Monasticism 6 Basil the Great 8 North African Voice 10 Abbot Benedict Himself 12 Scholastica 15 Irish Monasticism 17 Two Little Boys at School 20 Bede the Venerable 23 The Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury 25 Hilda of Whitby 29 Cuthbert 32 Willibrord, Willibald, Wunibald, Walburga, and Winfrid 35 Tetta and Leoba 38 Boniface 40 The Hospitable Meinrad 43 French Unity and Purity: Another St. Benedict and the Cluniacs 46 Bernard and Cistercian Reform 50 Friends of the Order 55 Ethelwold, Oswald, and Dunstan 59 Anselm of Canterbury 62 Aelred 65 Heloise and Abelard, and Hildegard, Too 67 The Black Plague, the Reformation, and Beyond: Hard Times for Monastic Life in Europe An Age of Reform 71 Not the Best of Times 74 A Brief History of Monasticism in the United States Welcome to the New World 83 The Swiss Arrive 89 Vital, Ildephonse, and Felix 93 The Sisters 96 Over the Alps at Grandma's House 99 A Swiss Monk Who Stayed at Home 104 The First Benedictine Abbot of the Church of England 107 A Benedictine Beginning 111 A Benedictine Pilgrimage 115 Dorothy Day: A Fellow Benedictine 121 Around the World 125 St. Benedict Speaks 127 Sources 131