Scholastica
Scholastica was an Italian Christian consecrated virgin and the sister of Benedict of Nursia. She is traditionally regarded as the foundress of the Benedictine nuns. Scholastica is honored as a saint of the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church and Anglican Communion.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 480 CE
- Attested period
- 480 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Lived c. 480 – 543 CE.
Relationships
- sibling of
- Benedict of Nursia, Saint Benedict of Nursia
- co occurs with
- Cyril, Methodius, Benedict of Nursia, Clare of Assisi, Patrick, Gabriel the Archangel, John Bosco, John the Evangelist, Barbara, Eligius, Kateri, Hildegard of Bingen, Ignatius of Loyola, John Baptist de la Salle, Marcellin Champagnat, Rose of Lima, Ferdinand III, Bede, James (son of Zebedee), Anastasia of Sirmium, Bernardino of Siena, Roch, Peregrine Laziosi, Agatha, Alfie Lambe, Berlinda of Meerbeke, Hemma of Gurk, Juliana of Nicomedia, John of Bridlington, Peter of Murom, Fevronia of Murom, Deicolus, Pharaildis, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Andrew Corsini, Sebaldus, Agapitus of Palestrina, Erasmus of Formiae, Willibrord, Quentin, Cornelius, Pancras, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago, Virgin of Candelaria, Andrew the Apostle, George, Jerome, Francis of Assisi, Saint Peter, Vitus, Silvia
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“Scholastica is the patron saint of Benedictine nuns, education, and convulsive children, and is invoked against storms and rain. Her feast is celebrated on 10 February, and Saint Scholastica's Day bears special importance in the Benedictine monastic calendar”
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“A basilica was built upon the birthplace of Benedict and Scholastica in the 1400s. Ruins of their familial home were excavated from beneath the church and preserved.”
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“Educators - Ignatius of Loyola, John Baptist de la Salle, Marcellin Champagnat, Scholastica”
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“Convulsive children; invoked against storms and rain – Scholastica”
#35561 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5