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.
The Rule of Saint Benedict
Chapter 30. How the younger boys are to be corrected
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Transcribed from a dated scan; artifacts may remain. Edition notes
Trans. D. Oswald Hunter Blair (in religion, Dom Oswald Hunter Blair; David Oswald Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, 1853-1939), a Benedictine monk of Fort Augustus Abbey, Not part of a named series; a standalone Abbey Press printing, 1906. Public domain.