John Brown’s raid on the federal armory at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia)
Saint Benedict of Nursia founded the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino, he is also the father of Western monacticism. He sought to create a sacred school and community and a safe place free from distraction, negativity and vices so, he turned the monastery into a place of work, prayer and space to provide spiritual life and guidance. Inside the monastery people learnt how to live and worship according to his rule. If a person wanted to live as a cenobite monk, he had to renounce to his possessions and distractions and follow God.
He also wrote The rule of Saint Benedict which is a book consisting of precepts for monks living under the authority of an abbot. Benedictines have been using The Rule of Saint Benedict for 15 centuries. As a result Benedict is regarded as the founder of Western monasticism as his rules gave way to reforms on the current Catholic hierarch.
The FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS wrote a petition to the king.
The America colonists were not given any place in the British parliament and the laws that this parliament are enacting are affecting them negatively. They wanted to avoid war with the British so they decided to write a letter to King George to present their grievances.
