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Dante lives again in Umbria Invective of St. Benedict

Gillessen's love for Umbria brings him to emphasise the role played by St. Benedict in Dante's Comedy. St. Benedict was born in Norcia, not far from Trevi. Gillessen, like Dante before him, feels that the so-called father of western monasticism would still have something to say against the religious institutions of current times. Just before this passage in the Comedy, Beatrice had had to comfort Dante for the violence of Pier Damiani's invective against the cardinals. Now Beatrice must benignly look on as St. Benedict receives the gift of prophecy through divine inspiration. The book which St. Benedict is holding in his right hand, the Rule of St. Benedict, obviously was not able to instruct Pius XII in his papal rule seeing that the papacy committed the terrible sin of actually blessing the concentration camps built by the Nazi exterminators of the Jews.
Invective of St. Benedict

Introduction
Dante lost in the dark wood (Inferno, I)
Dante - follower of Christ made flesh (Inferno, I)
The arrival of Caronte (Inferno, III)
The Noble Castle of Limbo (Inferno, IV)
Tremendous Minos (Inferno, V)
The lustful Guido Guinizelli and Arnaut Daniel (Purgatorio, XXVI)
Souls in the circle of the envious (Purgatorio, XIII)
The sky of Mercury - the active spirits (Paradiso, V-VI)
Invective of St. Benedict (Paradiso, XXII)
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Dante lives again in Umbria	Invective of St. Benedict
Gillessen's love for Umbria brings him to emphasise the role played by St. Benedict in Dante's Comedy. St. Benedict was born in Norcia, not far from Trevi. Gillessen, like Dante before him, feels that the so-called father of western monasticism would still have something to say against the religious institutions of current times. Just before this passage in the Comedy, Beatrice had had to comfort Dante for the violence of Pier Damiani's invective against the cardinals. Now Beatrice must benignly look on as St. Benedict receives the gift of prophecy through divine inspiration. The book which St. Benedict is holding in his right hand, the Rule of St. Benedict, obviously was not able to instruct Pius XII in his papal rule seeing that the papacy committed the terrible sin of actually blessing the concentration camps built by the Nazi exterminators of the Jews.
Introduction Dante lost in the dark wood (Inferno, I) Dante - follower of Christ made flesh (Inferno, I) The arrival of Caronte (Inferno, III) The Noble Castle of Limbo (Inferno, IV) Tremendous Minos (Inferno, V) The lustful Guido Guinizelli and Arnaut Daniel (Purgatorio, XXVI) Souls in the circle of the envious (Purgatorio, XIII) The sky of Mercury - the active spirits (Paradiso, V-VI) Invective of St. Benedict (Paradiso, XXII) index


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