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Benedict is supplied with food by Romanus. Benedict of Nursia (480 - 547), often known as Saint Benedict, was an Italian Catholic monk. He is regarded as the founder of Western Christian monasticism. Saint Romanus of Subiaco (died c. 550 AD) was a hermit in the area around Subiaco, Italy. He is remembered as having assisted and influenced Saint Benedict of Nursia, when the latter had just begun his life as a hermit. Romanus provided Benedict with clothing (a religious habit), food, and housing (in the form of a cave above the river Anio, which Benedict lived in for 3 years. Wood engraving, published in 1883.