On July 11, 480, St. Benedict, twin of St. Scholastica was born in Nursia, Italy. Shocked by the degenerate life of his fellow students in Rome, he withdrew to the mountain of Subiaco. He led a solitary life of prayer and of penance in a cave in Mt. Subiaco where he received instructions from St. Romanus. He gained a reputation of holiness which led many to join him. He established monasteries for them and lived a community life under a prescribed Rule. He founded the great Abbey in Monte Cassino and thus became the center of religious life in Europe. He followed the rule of Ora et Labora or ‘pray and work’, which is now the Scholastican motto. St. Scho was founded in 1961 in response to an appeal by the alumnae of St. Scholastica’s College Manila who resided in Marikina and in its neighboring towns to provide for a Catholic School within the vicinity where their children could go. SSAm occupies 5.8 hectares of land, offered to the Missionary Benedictine Sisters at a very special price by Mr. Jose Tuason and his family who then owned the place. It was on July 16, 1960 that the ground-breaking for the first building took place. It was incorporated on January 11 of the next year. Five months after, on June 5, classes started.
