Today I got a St.Benidicts medal and it is blessed. Now I was wondering what is the point of wearing this. I understand the holy life he lived and I like him a lot but what further blessings does this give. I believe there are some superstitions about the medal that Catholics should be wear of. I like the idea of wearing it because I am a student as was St. Benidict in school and RCIA. Any further information would be well apreciated. Thank you! God Bless!
Well, he was an exorcist.
Want to hear what St. Josemaría Escrivá had to say about him, among others?
“To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow,
Saint Benedict threw himself into a thornbush, Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond . . . You . . . what have you done?”
I understand once, a friend of St. Benedict accidentally broke a cup and was terribly upset. In an effort to make the friend feel better, he made the sign of the cross over it, and it came back together as if it had never been broken!
Another time, people were against St. Benedict’s medal and tried to poison him. At his meal, he blessed the meal, and the cup with the poison in it shattered!
Also, he established the “Rule of St. Benedict”.
He worked many miracles simply using the sign of the cross.
