The image below, which shows the event, is by Lorenzo Monaco and it is in the public domain.

St Gregory the Great gives an account in his Life of St Benedict: ‘That day two monks, one of them at the monastery, the other some distance away, received the very same revelation. They both saw a magnificent road covered with rich carpeting and glittering with thousands of lights. From his monastery it stretched eastward in a straight line until it reached up into heaven. And there in the brightness stood a man of majestic appearance, who asked them, “Do you know who passed this way?” “No,” they replied. “This,” he told them, “is the road taken by blessed Benedict, the Lord’s beloved, when he went to heaven.”

As we give thanks for the life of Our Holy Father St Benedict, we give thanks also for his peaceful, resigned death. We pray for the souls of all who may die this day, that St Benedict also will pray for them and lead them to the Father’s House. May God bless you this day.