Scholastica, sister of the worshipful Father, Benedict, had been consecrated to God in early childhood, as St. Gregory recounteth in the latter book of his Dialogues. She used to visit with Benedict once a year. On these occcasions he would go down to meet her in a house belonging to the monastery a short distance from the entrance. On a certain day, a sudden downpour of rain, obtained from God from Scholastica just as darkness was setting in, made it impossible for her worshipful brother to leave. And so they spent the entire night together, and both of them derived great profit from the holy thoughts they exchanged about the interior life. The next morning Scholastica returned to her convent, and Benedict to his monastery. Three days later as he stood in his room looking up towards heaven, he beheld his sister's soul leaving her body and entering the heavenly court in the form of a dove. Then Benedict sent some of his brethren to bury her body in the tomb he had prepared for himself. Whereby it came to pass that they twain who had ever been of one mind in the Lord, even in death were not divided.