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9. Detail

9. How Benedict, tempted to impurity, overcomes the temptation

8. How Benedict instructs visiting peasants in sacred doctrine

7. Detail

7. How a Priest, inspired by God, brings Benedict food on Easter day

6. Detail of devil

6. Detail of badger

6. How the devil breaks the bell

5. Detail of hill town

5. How the monk Romanus gives Benedict the hermit's habit (excellent hill town in background)

4. Detail of self portrait

4. How Benedict mends the cribble that was broken (self portrait of Sodoma and his pet badgers and goose)

3. How Benedict leaves the school in Rome

2. How Benedict leaves home and goes to study in Rome

1. Column detail

1. St. Benedict confers the rule on the Olivetan Monks (Benedict in a white robe sitting and handing open books to a group of monks also in white robes)

The frescoes are in the cloister. The first 21 frescoes are by Sodoma. To see frescoes in order, click Filter and sort by date - ascending.

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