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What led St. Benedict to flee Rome and become a hermit?

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... the vice of the city and of his fellow students impelled Benedict and his nurse to flee to the country. The Hermit Dissatisfied in his studies with his nurse, young Benedict left her secretly and disappeared into the wilderness of the Sabine hills ...

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