Personal Narrative: My Innovational Ideas

I, St. Benedict, should be remembered because of my innovational ideas. I was born in 465 CE, in San Gimignano, which was 60 miles away from Rome. Currently, I am the abbot of my monastery. When I was 15 years old, I left my school and my family to hike the Sabine Hills to become a hermit. Since I was very religious, I was eventually sent to Rome to pursue my religious studies. I was very devout in my studies and decided to leave everything that I had to avoid temptation. In Rome, when my neighboring monastery's leader resigned, and I was elected to be his replacement. Many monks were pleased with me but I decided to leave and start new monasteries. Many monks joined me and I directed many religious events. One of my major accomplishments are the Benedictines, which is a collection of my ideas and rules of how I thought a monastic life should be. …show more content…
The Benedictines spread across Europe and my teachings influenced the development of monasticism. This makes me a great innovator since not only my teachings spread wide across Europe but I also changed the rules of how monasticism is performed and followed, which leads to my next important achievement. Another one of my accomplishments is my idea in the variation in monasticism. Unlike the rules in eastern monasticism, where monks live in solitary and strict lives, my ideas involved life in a community where everyone got together and shared. It was a different view on monasticism and many people accepted it in many places in Europe. If I had not change the way monasticism was performed, the growth of monasticism would have been slowed. Overall, I, St. Benedict, should be remembered for my innovational ideas that influenced the evolution of