The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . ct and the sourcesfor his Ufe are contained in the above-mentioned work of also Guarnacci, ViUe pt res gestce Romanor. Pontif. et Card,a Clem. X usque ad Clem. A/{Rome, 1857); Novaes, Storiade^innmi Pontefici (Rome, 1,<22); Ranke, Die riim. Papste in denletztenvier Jahrh. (Leipzig, ed. 1900); VieduPape Bened. XIV(Paris. 1783); Grone, Pavat-Geschichte (Ratisbon, 1875), a long account of the Curia and the character of the car-
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . ct and the sourcesfor his Ufe are contained in the above-mentioned work of also Guarnacci, ViUe pt res gestce Romanor. Pontif. et Card,a Clem. X usque ad Clem. A/{Rome, 1857); Novaes, Storiade^innmi Pontefici (Rome, 1,<22); Ranke, Die riim. Papste in denletztenvier Jahrh. (Leipzig, ed. 1900); VieduPape Bened. XIV(Paris. 1783); Grone, Pavat-Geschichte (Ratisbon, 1875), a long account of the Curia and the character of the car-dinals in the time of Benedict XIV. see CeoisEtiL, Lettres et Codex 914 of the St. Gall Library was copied directlyMfmoireainedites. publiees par^Maurice Boutry {Pans, 1S95\ f^^j^ Charlemagnes copy for the Abbey of Reichenau. towards the end of the century, and at his requesta most careful transcript of it was made for him, asan 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 present .Sf-B f NEMCtv*. On Benedict as a canonist see Schulte. Gesch. der Quellen undLiu. des can. Rechts (Stuttgart. 1880). Ill, C33 sqq. Patrick J. Healy. Benedict, Rule of Saixt.—This work holdsthe first place amongmonastif legislativecodes, and was byfar the most impor-tant factor in theorganization andspread of monasti-cism in the its general char-ad er and also itsillustration of own life,see the article Bene-dict, Saint. Here,however, it is treat edmore in detail, underthe following heads;I. The Text of theRule; II. Analysis ofthe Rule; III. Prac-tical Working of theRule. I. The Text opTHE Rule.—The ex-act time and placeat which St. Benedictwrote his Rule arenot known, nor can itbcdetermined wheth-er the Rule, as wenow possess it, wascomposed as a sin-gle whole or wliel herit gradually tookshape in responseto the needs of hism
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