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benefice (Latin, beneficium, a benefit) A juridical entity erected or constituted in perpetuity by competent ecclesiastical authority, consisting of a sacred office and the right of receiving the revenues accruing to that office. These revenues may arise from: property, movable or immovable owned by the benefice; obligatory contributions made by a family or some moral … Continue reading “Benefice”

Benefiali Marco a Roman painter, was born in 1684. He received the honor of knighthood from the pope, and died in 1764. In the Academy of St. Luke is a fine picture of Christ at the Well of Samaria; in the Church of Stigmata, The Flagellation; in the Palazza Spada there is a saloon painted … Continue reading “Benefiali Marco”

Benefactor (). The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors (Luk 22:25). This word was employed as a title of hora or to kings and princes, corresponding to the Latin pater patriae. Ptolemy Euergetes, king of Egypt, affords an instance of the application of … Continue reading “Benefactor”

Benedictus, The (Canticle of Zachary) A song of thanksgiving beginning Benedictus Dominus, Deus Israel (Blessed be the Lord God of Israel), uttered by Zachary upon the birth of his son, John the Baptist (Luke, 1). It is one of the three “evangelical canticles,” is included in the Roman Breviary for Lauds daily throughout the year, … Continue reading “Benedictus, The”

Benedictus Polonus A medieval Friar Minor missionary and traveller (c. 1245) companion of Giovanni da Piancarpino, and author of the brief chronicle “De Itinere Fratrum Minorum ad Tartaros”, concerning the first Franciscan missions to the Tatars. This work was unknown apparently to Wadding and Sbaralea, the literary historians of the order. It was first published … Continue reading “Benedictus Polonus”

Benedictus of Nursia, abbott of Monte Cassino Benedictus of Nursia. St. Benedict, abbot of Monte Cassino (“Abbas Casinensis”), called “patriarch of the monks of the West,” lived during the troubled and tumultuous period after the deposition of Augustulus, when most of the countries of Europe were either overrun by Arians or still heathen. There were … Continue reading “Benedictus of Nursia, abbott of Monte Cassino”

Benedictus Mediolanensis (Benedict of Milan) was a contemporary of Benedict of Aniane, and, like him, was instrumental in the restoration of the old Nursian rule. He was made abbot of the Monastery of St. Ambrose at Milan, A.D. 784, by Peter, archbishop of Milan; and his appointment was confirmed by Karl the emperor. See Bulteau, … Continue reading “Benedictus Mediolanensis”

Benedictus Levita SEE BENEDICT OF MENTZ. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Benedictus I, pope Benedictus I., pope, called by the Greeks Bonosus (Evagr. Sc. H. E. v. 16), son of Boniface, a Roman, was elected successor to John III. on June 3, 574 (Jaff, Regesta Pont.; the dates given by Baronius are erroneous; cf. Clinton, F. R. ii. 543, on the causes of discrepancy in the … Continue reading “Benedictus I, pope”

Benedictus-Fossatensis abbot of the Monastery of St. Maur des Fossez, was one of the monastic reformers in the latter part of the 8th and beginning of the 9th century. He is sometimes confounded with Benedict of Aniane; but the latter is never styled Fossatensis. The monastery over which he presided was the final resting-place of … Continue reading “Benedictus-Fossatensis”