ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 13th of November WELCOME! ALL SAINTS OF THE ORDER OF ST BENEDICT Saint Benedict of Nursia The collective feast day for all members of the order is celebrated annually on November 13 as the Feast of All Saints of the Order of Saint Benedict , who composed the Benedictine Rule, a book of strict yet balanced guidelines for monks living in community. Its core principles focus on prayer, manual labour, and obedience. Illuminated manuscript, c. 1260: Saint Benedict blessing a group of monks ORIGINS OF THE BENEDICTINES The origins of the Benedictines are not the same as most religious orders. Saint Benedict did not set out to found a religious order. Instead he wrote the Rule for his monastery at Monte Cassino and for the other monasteries he founded. He made the Rule freely available to any other community who wanted it, and over the centuries it was taken up by thousands of individual communities, of m...