July 11 is the feast of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the author of the Rule of Saint Benedict, who is honored by many as the father of Western monasticism.
One of the earliest biographies of his life was written by Pope Saint Gregory the Great, and it includes many stories of incredible miracles performed by the monk.
Here are seven of the best miracles Saint Benedict of Nursia performed:1) Saint Benedict broke a glass full of poison with the Sign of the Cross.
The abbot of a nearby monastery died, and the monks there asked Saint Benedict if he would become their new abbot. He declined at first, but they insisted, so he agreed. Benedict was stricter than the previous abbot, and soon the monks came to hate Benedict. They decided to kill him and put some poison in his glass of wine.
But when he made the Sign of the Cross to bless the wine, the wine glass suddenly broke as if a rock had been thrown at it. Saint Gregory the Great writes in his telling of the story:
“On which accident the man of God by and by perceived that the glass had in it the drink of death, which could not endure
