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Feast Day February 10th
 
Twin sister of Saint Benedict. Soon after her brother established his monastery at Monte Cassiono Scholastica founded and lead a monastery nearby. Scholastica and Benedict remained close until their deaths.
St. Scholastica’s community for women was about five miles away from her brother’s community for men. Despite the relatively close distance the twins only saw each other once a year because But St. Benedict’s rule required them to return to their own communities before the end of the day. It was difficult for either of them, after having done all their work for the day, to walk to the others’ monastery, to visit, and to get home on time. 
So they saw each other but once a year, at a farm house about halfway between their communities. There they would spend the day in prayer and worship and talk of spiritual things.
One year, when St. Benedict was preparing to leave, St. Scholastica asked him to stay for the night. Perhaps she knew that she wouldn’t live another year. Perhaps there was another reason she wanted him to stay. But he was irritated, and he refused.
So she bowed her head, and prayed, and when she looked up, a storm broke. Not just rain, but a storm that raged with such fury that it was impossible to leave the farm house.
“My sister, what have you done?” said St. Benedict.
“I asked a favor of you,” St. Scholastica replied, “and you refused me. So I asked God.”
What could St. Benedict say to that? He stayed, and they continued their visit through the night, to the next day. When the storm finally ceased, St. Benedict returned home.
And three days later, he saw his sister’s soul ascending to heaven in the form of a dove. He sent to her monastery, and retrieved her body, and had it buried in the tomb he had prepared for himself.
And when he died, he was buried with her in the same tomb
 
St. Scholastica is the patron of education, nuns, children with convulsive disorders and is invoked against storms and rain.