47 St. Anselm

St. Anselm

The Benedictine abbey of Sant’Anselmo (St. Anselm) is located on the Aventine Hill in Rome. As the headquarters of an academic institute of higher studies and of the abbot primate of the Confederated Benedictines, it is a place that unites within it prayer, study, and governance, the same three activities that were a feature of the life of the saint to whom it is dedicated: Anselm of Aosta, the ninth centenary of whose death occurred in 2009. The many initiatives promoted for this happy event, especially by the Diocese of Aosta, highlighted the interest that this medieval thinker continues to rouse. He is also known as Anselm of Bec and Anselm of Canterbury because of the cities with which he was associated…

Taken from Great Christian Thinkers by Pope Benedict XVI