Post #6443

The next day the venerable virgin returned to her cloister, and the man of God to his monastery. Three days later, he being in his cell intent on reciting the Divine Office and having raised his eyes to heaven, he saw the soul of his sister coming out of the body penetrate in the form of a dove the mysterious heights of the sky (10 February 547). Enraptured with joy for her glory, he gave thanks to Almighty God with canticles and praises, and announced her death to his brothers. And he immediately sent them to take his body, to take it to the monastery, and to bury it in the tomb which he had prepared for himself and in which he himself was laid a few weeks later. Thus it happened that, just as their souls had always been united in God, so also their bodies brought them together in one and the same tomb. Let’s pray God, who made fly up to heaven, in the likeness of a dove, the soul of the blessed Virgin Scholastica, to grant us, through her merits and prayers, to live innocently so that we may be found worthy to reach everlasting joys (Oratio).