resident at St. Scholastica's Abbey proper, while a small contingent resides at the Sacro Speco (Holy Cave), the shrine at St. Benedict's hermitage. The
habit. By his advice Benedict became a hermit and for three years lived in this cave above the lake. Gregory tells little of Benedict's later life. He now
living communally under the authority of an abbot. The spirit of Saint Benedict's Rule is summed up in the motto of the Benedictine Confederation: pax ("peace")
Reformation. Under the leadership of Sebastian Cave, Ealing Priory School, as the school was known, (becoming StBenedict's School in 1948) opened on 2 October 1902
after St. Francis Pardon of Assisi St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint archive Society of St. Francis St. Benedict'sCave, which contains a portrait of Francis