Our Father St. Benedict - Icon Reproduction

This icon portrays the founder of the Benedictine order dressed as an abbot, holding a scroll symbolizing his famous Rule for Monks. The words written upon it in Latin are those from its very beginning: "Listen carefully, my son, to the master's instructions, and attend to them with the ear of your heart." The original hangs in the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception at Conception Abbey in Missouri.