The Benedictine monks, followers of St. Benedict’s ( 480 – 547 A.D.) “Holy Rule” became the pioneers of Christian civilization, preaching the Gospel, serving the poor and sick and teaching religion and preaching the Gospel. So great was the influence of these monks that the centuries from the 6th to the 13th are called by historians the “Benedictine Centuries.”
The first Benedictines who came to the Philippines in 1895 worked as missionaries in Surigao, then established a school, San Beda College, in Manila in 1901.
St. Benedict believes that work and prayer are means to the sanctification of man and the glorification of God.
