The Life of Our Most Holy Father St. Benedict 72Chapter XXX.
Open in the readerHow children are to be corrected.
E very age and understanding ought to have a measure of government suitable to it. As often therefore as children, or those under age, commit faults, and are incapable of understanding the greatness of the punishment of excommunication, let them be punished by rigorous fasting, or sharp stripes, that so they may be corrected.