Monastics and Missionaries
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Benedict of Nursia
The abbot of Monte Cassino whose Rule became the pattern for monastic life in the West.
Bernard of Clairvaux
The Cistercian abbot, preacher, and mystic whom Calvin regarded as the major witness to truth between Gregory the Great and the Reformation.
Boniface
The English monk who evangelized the Germans and bound their churches to the bishop of Rome.
Columba
The Irish monk who founded Iona and carried the gospel to the Picts and Scots.
Patrick of Ireland
The Briton, once a slave in Ireland, who returned as a missionary and planted a monastic church among the Celts.
The Venerable Bede
The English monk-scholar whose Ecclesiastical History is our chief source for the early English church.
