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    Learning From the Benedictines – Why a Rule of Life?

    In the late 1800’s two French Benedictine Priests were sent to Louisiana. For some reason, they were not embraced there and had to leave. The Abbott of St. Gregory’s Abbey in Shawnee, Oklahoma explained to our students that God took these two French Benedictine priests who were not wanted to a land that was not wanted to a people that were not wanted to do what He wanted to be done. Leaving Louisiana the Benedictine priests settled in Oklahoma where they began an amazing ministry to the Indian tribes that were moving into the Oklahoma territories. They started schools for the Indian children all over the territory and eventually founded…