Benedict of Nursia

480–547

founder of Christian monasticism, founder of the Benedictine order (480–547)

writer · theologian · religious

Born in Norcia

Contemporaries

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• Aryabhata (476–550)
• Boethius (480–524)
• Clovis I (466–511)
• Gregory I (540–604)

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