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Rule
St Benedict of Nursia, tr. Hunter Blair, 1907
Chapter 30
EVERY age and understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. As often, therefore, as boys, or others under age, or unable to understand the greatness of the penalty of excommunication, commit faults, let them be punished by severe fasting or sharp stripes, in order that they may be cured.