The First Oblate
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Saint Maurus – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Maurus was the first disciple of St. Benedict of Nursia. He is mentioned in St. Gregory the Great’s biography of the latter as the first oblate; offered to the monastery by his noble Roman parents as a young boy to be brought up in the monastic life. Four stories involving Maurus recounted by Gregory formed a pattern for the ideal formation of a Benedictine monk. The most famous of these involved St. Maurus’s rescue of Saint Placidus, a younger boy offered to St. Benedict at the same time as St. Maurus. The incident has been reproduced in many medieval and Renaissance paintings.Saints Maurus and Placidus are venerated together on 5 October.[1] Continue Reading Here
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The custom of offering a youth to be raised as monastic seems strange to our contemporary sensibilities. We see here that customs different from those of our time and place may result very positively, including even more positively than the customs of our own era. We learn to keep our hearts and minds open when approaching the words and actions of Christians of other times and places.
Comment by Br Finbar July 15, 2009 @ 6:15 am