When obedience works miracles

Maurus, the son of the Roman patrician Eutychius, entered the monastic world at a very young age when his father entrusted him to Saint Benedict, who at that time was shaping his communal experience at Subiaco. Along with him also received was Placid, the son of another nobleman, Tertullus. The two boys, noted for their docility and goodness of heart, soon became especially dear to the founder of Western monasticism; Maurus, being the elder, quickly assumed a position of trust beside his master.