Research one of the holy men or women from the early Church, and explain their contribution to the Church both in their own time, and as role models to us today.
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Saint Scholastica was born in in Nursea, a mountainous part of central Italy in 480 Ad. She was born into a wealthy and very religious family, and her and her twin brother Benedict were faithful from a very young age. She was born into Christianity and her family revolved their life very strongly around their religion. It only made sense that Scholastica was a very religious child and it turns out that both Scholastica and her brother Benedict would both go on to become Saints.
Since she came from a wealthy family, she was very well educated, as was the rest of her family. She stayed at home with her father until he died. It is believed other religious women came to live with them too. No one knows for sure quite what Scholastica did before after she'd grown up and before she left home. Her brother had left already and had …show more content…
She had a wealthy upbringing, a good education, and a desire to serve God. In comparison to other Saints, Scholastica appears to have had an easy life. Other people who lived around her were very likely to have been Christians too by this time. They lived quiet lives in small towns and were likely all Christian by this time so her community would've seen it as something absolutely normal and in society, the laws on religious freedom had already been put in place about 200 years before, so the small community she and her brother would've lived in weren't that likely to start changing their beliefs and religion. They were also quite secluded from big towns and cities like Rome where if it had of been likely that this shift in religious belief, Roman Empire or rules did happen, it wouldn't affect people like Scholastica and Benedict living in a more isolated
Write your essay starting here:
Saint Scholastica was born in in Nursea, a mountainous part of central Italy in 480 Ad. She was born into a wealthy and very religious family, and her and her twin brother Benedict were faithful from a very young age. She was born into Christianity and her family revolved their life very strongly around their religion. It only made sense that Scholastica was a very religious child and it turns out that both Scholastica and her brother Benedict would both go on to become Saints.
Since she came from a wealthy family, she was very well educated, as was the rest of her family. She stayed at home with her father until he died. It is believed other religious women came to live with them too. No one knows for sure quite what Scholastica did before after she'd grown up and before she left home. Her brother had left already and had …show more content…
She had a wealthy upbringing, a good education, and a desire to serve God. In comparison to other Saints, Scholastica appears to have had an easy life. Other people who lived around her were very likely to have been Christians too by this time. They lived quiet lives in small towns and were likely all Christian by this time so her community would've seen it as something absolutely normal and in society, the laws on religious freedom had already been put in place about 200 years before, so the small community she and her brother would've lived in weren't that likely to start changing their beliefs and religion. They were also quite secluded from big towns and cities like Rome where if it had of been likely that this shift in religious belief, Roman Empire or rules did happen, it wouldn't affect people like Scholastica and Benedict living in a more isolated