. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . first place amongmonastic legislativecodes, and was byfar the most impor-tant factor in theorganization andspread of monasti-cism in the its general char-acter and also itsillustration of own life,see the article Bene-dict, Saint. Here,however, it is treatedmore in detail, underthe following heads:I. The Text of theRule; II. Analysis ofthe Rule; Working of theRule. I. The Text opTHE Ru^B.—The ex-act time and placeat
. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . first place amongmonastic legislativecodes, and was byfar the most impor-tant factor in theorganization andspread of monasti-cism in the its general char-acter and also itsillustration of own life,see the article Bene-dict, Saint. Here,however, it is treatedmore in detail, underthe following heads:I. The Text of theRule; II. Analysis ofthe Rule; Working of theRule. I. The Text opTHE Ru^B.—The ex-act time and placeat which St. Benedictwrote his Rule arenot knowii, nor can itbcdetermined wheth-er the Rule, as wenow possess it, wascomposed as a sin-gle whole or whetherit gradually tookshape in responseto the needs of hismonks. Somewhereabout 530, however,may be taken as alikely date, andMonte Cassino as amore probable placethan Subiaco, for theRule certainly re-flects St. Benedictsmatured monasticand spiritual wis-dom. The earliestchronicler says thatwhen Monte Cassinowas destroyed b ythe Lombards OF Saint.—This work holds Unaiir ^r-Oic?! .-t-tiim. €riNrDlMA\^»ST\f- an exemplar of the text to be disseminated through-out the monasteries of his empire. Several copiesof the Rule were made from it, one of which survivesto this day; for there can be no doubt that the presentCodex 914 of the St. Gall Library was copied directlyfrom Charlemagnes copy for the Abbey of exact diplomatic reprint (not in facsimile) ofthis codex was published at Monte Cassino in 1900,so that the text of this MS., certainly the best indi-vidual text of the Rule in existence, can be studiedwithout other back to Charle-magnesMS.,orto itsoriginal a t MonteCassino, which wasdestroyed by fire in896, and thus thetext of the so-calledautograph may berestored by approv-ed critical methodswith quite unusualcertainty, and couldwe be certain that itreally was the auto-graph, ther
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