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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Benedict of Alignan
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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BENEDICT OF ALIGNAN (d. 1268), Benedictine abbot of Notre Dame de la Grasse (1224) and bishop of Marseilles (1229), twice visited the Holy Land (1239 and 1260), where he helped the Templars build the great castle of Safet. He founded a short-lived order, the Brothers of the Virgin, suppressed by the council of Lyons (1274), and died a Franciscan. His writings include a letter to Innocent IV. and De constructione Castri Saphet (Baluze, Miscellanea, ii.).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Benedict of Alignan'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/benedict-of-alignan.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Benedict of Alignan'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/benedict-of-alignan.html. 1910.
