355, 396; the struggle for,
  95; monastic views of, 417. 
Samson, Abbot, election of, 145. 
Santa Crocella, chapel of, 131. 
Saracens burn Monte Cassino
  monastery, 135. 
Saragossa, Council of, forbids
  priests to assume monks’ robes,
  122. 
Savonarola, a Dominican, 242. 
Saxons invade England, 180. 
Schaff, Philip, on origin of monasticism,
  18; on Montanists,
  28; on the biography of the
hermit Paul, 35;
  on St. Jerome, 86;
  on Augustine, 117;
  on Benedictine rule, 148;
  on monasteries as centers of learning, 153;
  on effects of monasticism, 387. 
Scholastica, story about, 138. 
Schools, monastic, 154, 167.
  See Learning. 
Scott, Walter, on installation of an abbot, 145;
  on the crusaders, 199. 
Seclusion, 244, 259.
  See Solitude. 
Secular life, duties of, 113;
  the monks and, 399;
  distinction between religion and the, 418;
  true view of, 420. 
Self-crucifixion, 418. 
Self-denial, its nature, 356;
  Mozoomdar on, 358. 
Selfishness, engendered by monasticism, 396. 
Self-forgetfulness, the key to happiness, 392. 
Self-mastery, the craving for, 70. 
Self-sacrifice, effect of, upon the individual, 390;
  meaning of true, 419.
  See Asceticism. 
Serapion, monks of, 63. 
Severus, his life of St. Martin, 119. 
Sherman, Father Thomas E., on the Society of Jesus, 258;
  on Loyola, 278. 
Sick, ministered to by women, 350.
  See Charity. 
Silvianus, epigram of, on dying Rome, 76. 
Simon de Montfort, 237. 
Simeon Stylites, birth and early life of, 51;
  austerities of, 52;
  his fame, 52;
  lives on a pillar, 53;
  Tennyson on, 54;
  death of, 56;
  refuses to see his mother, 397;
  method of, forsaken, 421. 
Sin, monastic confessions of, 413;
  consciousness of, preserved by monks, 414;
  exaggerated views of, 415;
  false methods to get rid of, 416;
  monastic influence on doctrine of atonement for, 417. 
Sisterhoods, see Women. 
Sixtus IV. and V., Popes, on the stigmata, 221. 
Social service, spirit of, 419, 423. 
Solitude, of Egypt, 33;
  provided for in Pachomian rules, 60;
  Jerome on, 61;
  the love of, as a cause of monasticism, 362, 363;
  effects of, upon the individual, 393;
  Montaigne on temptations of, 393;
  society and, 395. 
Soul-purity, struggles for, 95.
  See Salvation. 
Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius, 265. 
Spain, monasticism enters, 122. 
Starbuck, Charles C., on the casuistry of the Jesuits, 274. 
Stigmata, of St. Francis, 219. 
Storrs, on Bernard, 197. 
Subiaco, desert of, 131. 
Superstitions, monastic, when revolt against is justifiable, 423. 
Suppression of monasteries,
  see Monasteries, The Fall of. 
Supremacy, the monks required to take the oath of, 301.