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Benoit Dianiane Saint a reformer of monastic discipline, was born at Languedoc, about 750. He was the son of Aigulfe, count of Maguelonne, and was at first cup-bearer of Pepin and of Charlemagne. In 774 he retired to the Abbey of St. Seine, where the friars desired to make him priest, but he refused, and … Continue reading “Benoit Dianiane Saint”

Benoit SEE BENEDICT; SEE BENOIT. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Benoist (Or Benoit) an English theologian and biographer, entered the Order of St. Benedict, was prior of the Monastery of Canterbury, and afterwards priest of Peterborough. In 1189 he assisted at the coronation of Richard I, and in 1191 he was elected guard of the grand seal. He died in 1193, or, according to bishop … Continue reading “Benoist (Or Benoit)”

Benoist bishop OF MARSEILLES in the first half of the 13th century, was one of the first Minorite Brothers, and also, it is said, a disciple of Francis of Assisi. In 1229 he was chosen arbitrator by the cardinal of San Angelo between the Marseilleans and the Monastery of St. Victor. He wrote a treatise … Continue reading “Benoist (2)”

Benoicirc;t, Michel Born at Autun (or Dijon), France, 8 October, 1715; died at Peking, 23 October, 1774, a Jesuit scientist, for thirty years in the service of Kien Lung, Emperor of China. He studied at Dijon, and at St. Sulpice, Paris, and entered the Jesuit Novitiate at Nancy, 18 March, 1737. After three years of … Continue reading “Benoicirc;t, Michel”

Beno (Heb. Beno’, , his son; Sept. in v. 2:26, and translates literally in v. 2:27) is given as the only son, or the first of the four sons of Jaaziah the Levite, of the family of Merari, in 1Ch 24:26-27; but there is much confusion in the whole passage. B.C. perh. 1014. SEE BEN-. … Continue reading “Beno”

Bennu in Egyptian mythology, was the sacred bird of Osiris, probably a kind of lapwing. From its being supposed to accompany the soul through its journeys in the lower life, it was gradually accepted as its emblem, the emblem of its resurrection. It was further also a symbol of a period of time, the great … Continue reading “Bennu”

Benno, St descended from the counts of Woldenburgh in Saxony, was born at Hildesheim in 1010, and became, in 1060, bishop of Meissen. He eagerly exerted himself for the conversion of the pagan Sclavonians. In the struggle between the Emperor Henry IV and Gregory VII he was an unflinching adherent of the latter, and therefore … Continue reading “Benno, St”

Benno, Saint (1010 -1106 ) Confessor. Bishop of Meissen, born Hildesheim, Prussia; died Meissen, Saxony. He became a monk and Abbot of Saint Michael’s, Hildesheim, and was later made master of the canons of Goslar. In 1066 he was consecrated Bishop of Meissen. He joined the Saxon revolt against the emperor, Henry IV, but was … Continue reading “Benno, Saint”

Benno II Bishop of Osnabrück, b. at Luningen in Swabia; d. 27 July, 1088, in the Benedictine monastery of Iburg near Osnabrück. His parents sent him at an early age to the monastic school of Strasburg where the learned Herman (Contractus) of Reichenau was then teaching. Having completed his education and made a pilgrimage to … Continue reading “Benno II”