Benedict I, Pope
A Roman and the son of Boniface, and was called Bonosus by the Greeks.
Benedict II, Pope Saint
A Roman, he was pope for a little less than eleven months, and died in 685. Account of his pontificate.
Benedict IV, Pope
A Roman and the son of Mammalus, became pope in the first half of 900.
Benedict Joseph Labre, Saint
Frenchman, longed to be a monk but spent the last thirteen years of his life as a pilgrim. He died in 1783.
Benedict Levita
Benedict Levita (of Mainz), or Benedict the Deacon, is the name given to himself by the author of a forged collection of capitularies which appeared in the ninth century.
Benedict of Aniane, Saint
St. Benedict was a Goth, served in the Frankish court, then became a Benedictine monk. His monastery of Aniane was the model for monastic reform in France and the Empire. He died i…
Benedict of Nursia, Saint
Long article on the founder of Western monasticism, and on his Rule.
Benedict of San Philadelphio, Saint
Also known as Benedict the Moor. Born in Italy to Christian slaves from Ethiopia, St. Benedict joined an association of hermits, and when that was dissolved, became a Franciscan Re…
Benedict VI, Pope
Benedict, Cardinal-Deacon of St. Theodore, a Roman and the son of Hildebrand, was elected as the successor of John XIII.
Benedict VIII, Pope
The first of the Tusculan popes. Date of birth unknown; d. 9 April, 1024.
Benedict X
The bearer of this name was an antipope in the days of Nicholas II, 1056-61.
Benedict XI, Pope Blessed
Elected unanimously, author of Scriptural commentaries, d. 1304.
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