The little flowers of Saint Benet
Subtitle: gathered from the dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great ; with eight drawings and other designs throughout by Paul Woodroffe
Publisher: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner
Published: 1901
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Introduction 3; title: I. How Benet made a broken sieve whole and sound 5; title: II. How he overcame a great temptation of the Flesh 11; title: III. How Benet, by the sign of the Cross, brake a drinking-glass in pieces 15; title: IV. How Benet reformed a monk that would not stay at his prayers 25; title: V. Of a fountain that sprang forth on the top of a mountain, by the prayers of the man of God 28; title: VI. How the iron head of a bill from the bottom of the water returned to the handle again 31; title: VII. How Maurus walked upon the water 33; title: VIII. How a loaf was poisoned, and carried far off by a crow 36; title: IX. How venerable Benet, by his prayer, removed a huge stone 45; title: X. Of the fantastical fire which burned the kitchen 47; title: XI. How venerable Benet revived a boy crushed to death with the ruin of a wall 49; title: XII. How, by revelation, venerable Benet knew that his monks had eaten out of the monastery 51; title: XIII. Of the brother of Valentinian the monk, whom the man of God blamed for eating on his journey 53; title: XIV. How the dissimulation of King Totila was discovered and found out by Venerable Benet 56; title: XV. How Venerable Benet prophesied to King Totila, and also to the Bishop of Canosa, such things as were afterwards to fall out 59; title: XVI. Of a certain clergyman, whom Venerable Benet for a time delivered from a devil 62; title: XVII. How the man of God, Benet, did foretell the suppression of one of his own Abbeys 68; title: XVIII. How blessed Benet knew the hiding away of a flagon of wine 70; title: XIX. How the man of God knew that one of his monks had received certain handkerchiefs 72; title: XX. How holy Benet knew the proud thought of one of his monks 74; title: XXI. Of two hundred bushels of meal found before the man of God's cell 76; title: XXII. How, by vision, Venerable Benet disposed the building of the Abbey of Terracina 79; title: XXIII. Of certain nuns absolved after their death 83; title: XXIV. Of a boy that, after his burial, was cast out of his grave 88; title: XXV. How a Monk, forsaking the Abbey, met with a dragon in the way 90; title: XXVI. How holy Benet cured a boy of the leprosy 92; title: XXVII. How Benet found money miraculously to relieve a poor man 93; title: XXVIII. How a cruet of glass was thrown upon the stones, and not broken 95; title: XXIX. How an empty barrel was filled with oil 97; title: XXX. How Benet delivered a Monk from a devil 99; title: XXXI. Of a country fellow, that, with the only sight of the man of God was loosed from his bonds 102; title: XXXII. How by prayer Venerable Benet raised up a dead child 106; title: XXXIII. Of a miracle wrought by his Sister Scholastica 109; title: XXXIV. How Benet saw the soul of his Sister ascend into Heaven 113; title: XXXV. How he saw the whole world represented before his eyes ; and also the soul of Germanus, Bishop of Capua, ascending to Heaven 114; title: XXXVI. How holy Benet wrote a rule for his monks 119; title: XXXVII. How Venerable Benet did prophesy to his monks the time of his own death 120; title: XXXVIII. How a mad woman was cured in his cave 123; title: List of Illustrations; title: How St. Benet passed away in his oratory Frontispiece; title: How St. Benet made a broken sieve whole facing 6; title: How Brother Maurus walked on the water and saved Brother Placidus 34; title: St. Benet commands the crow to carry away the poisoned loaf 38; title: How St. Benet quenched the fantastical fire 48; title: How St. Benet discovered the deception of King Totila 56; title: How the devil disguised as a physician met St. Benet 100; title: How St. Benet discoursed for the last time with St. Scholastica 110