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The fresco cycle begins in the upper register of the south wall. In scene 1 (left) St Benedict bids farewell to his teacher and departs Rome. Benedict, sent by his parents to Rome to study, abandons his study in order to dedicate himself entirely to God. He bids farewell to his teacher and leaves Rome accompanied only by his nurse.
In scene 2 (right) the miracle of the sieve is depicted. The first stop is Affile, not far from Subiaco, where the saint performs his earliest miracle. Through prayer he repairs a grain sieve that his nurse had borrowed and carelessly broken.
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