Abstract
It is recurrently lamented, and justly so, that there is so little Benedictine history available in the English language. Not enough is written by the sons and daughters of Saint Benedict about the sons and daughters of Saint Benedict. This dearth may be partially explained by the fact that each Benedictine house leads an independent existence, and because of this autonomy, the history of the order is essentially the history of individual communities. Furthermore, the monastic archives often leave much to be desired since the monks and nuns of the past, just as those of today, have been more eager to make history in the sight of God than to write it for men.