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unusual facts about Benedict


Stromsburg, Nebraska

It operated until 2002, when the Stromsburg district consolidated with Benedict, Nebraska to form Cross County Community School.


Abbey of Regina Laudis

Mother Benedict and Mother Mary were both nuns of the Benedictine Abbey of Notre Dame de Jouarre in France.

Alexander Maximilian Seitz

The St. Anthony, and St. Benedict, as engraved by the Capuchin Bernardo da Monaco, and his Mater Amabilis aroused admiration; an enthroned Madonna went to England.

Antipope Benedict X

The supporters of Nicholas then gained control of Rome, and forced Benedict to flee to the castle of Count Gerard of Galéria.

Antipope Benedict XIV

In 1417, the Council of Constance resolved the Schism, proclaiming Martin V the new Pope and demanding that Benedict XIII renounce his claim.

Antonio María Rouco Varela

When Pope Benedict XVI resigned on February 28, 2013, Cardinal Rouco Varela again was a cardinal elector and participated in the subsequent papal conclave that elected Pope Francis.

Báthory family

and Andrew's sons George (d. 1307), Benedict (d. 1321) and Briccius (d. 1322) for their military services by granting them Bátor in the county of Szabolcs.

Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor

Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor is a 2003 American television film directed by Mikael Salomon and starring Aidan Quinn, Kelsey Grammer, Flora Montgomery and John Light.

Benedict Cayenne

Benedict Cayenne (born 22 March 1944 in Barrackpore) is a retired athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specialized in the 800 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.

Benedict Munro, Baron von Meikeldorf

Benedict was the youngest son of Robert Munro, Commissary of Caithness, who in turn was the third son of John Mor Munro, 3rd of Coul, a descendant of George Munro, 10th Baron of Foulis.

Benedict of Farfa

Two charters from 802 and 804 show that Benedict and his predecessor Mauroald financed the military service of two brothers from the Sabina, Probatus and Picco, sons of Ursus of the Pandoni family, who were serving the army of Charlemagne then targeting the Principality of Benevento.

Benedict Read

Benedict William Read (born 1945) is an English art historian, the son of the eminent art critic and poet Sir Herbert Read.

Benedict Sandin

Benedict Sandin (1918–1982) was an Iban ethnologist, historian, and Curator of the Sarawak Museum in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Benedict Silberman

Benedict Silberman, originally Boruch Hirsch-Benedigton Silberman (December 5, 1901 Helsinki, Finland - December 11, 1971 Hilversum, Netherlands), was a Jewish composer and conductor.

Benedictine Women of Madison

Other groups involved in Holy Wisdom Monastery include the Oblates and the Community of Benedict, two different groups of single and married people from many religious traditions who follow the Rule of St. Benedict in their daily lives; and Sunday Assembly, which gathers on Sunday mornings for an ecumenical Christian worship service.

Bonum

Bonum sane was a motu proprio on Saint-Joseph written by Pope Benedict XV and delivered on July 25, 1920.

Clara Nordström

Round about 1950 she again moved to Stuttgart and took orders ("Oblatin" of St. Benedict) in the convent of Neresheim.

Corps of Colonial Marines

After the British failed to destroy the American Chesapeake Bay Flotilla at the Battle of St. Jerome Creek, they conducted coastal raids on the towns of Calverton, Huntingtown, Prince Frederick, Benedict and Lower Marlborough.

Council of Sutri

The claim of the third, Gregory VI, was peculiar in that he had purchased the title in good faith from Benedict IX two years previously.

Daniel M. Buechlein

Auxiliary Bishop Christopher J. Coyne served as the Apostolic Administrator until October 18, 2012 when Pope Benedict appointed Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R. Archbishop-Elect of Indianapolis.

DeLorean Motor Company

The key element of evidence for the prosecution was a videotape showing DeLorean discussing the drugs deal with undercover FBI agents Benedict (Ben) Tisa and West, although DeLorean's attorney Howard Weitzman successfully demonstrated to the court that he was coerced into participation in the deal by the agents who initially approached him as legitimate investors.

Family history of Nicolas Sarkozy

Andrée Mallah, then a law student, was the daughter of Benedict Mallah, a well-off urological surgeon with a well-established reputation in the mainly bourgeois 17th arrondissement of Paris.

Foreign Office papal visit memo

The memo suggested that Pope Benedict XVI, during his visit, could launch a range of branded condoms, visit an abortion clinic, bless a gay marriage and apologize for the Spanish Armada.

Geoffrey Boucicaut

He and his army occupied Avignon in 1398 and started a five year siege of the Palais des Papes where the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII was, which ended when Benedict managed to escape from Avignon on 12 March 1403 and find shelter in territory belonging to Louis II of Anjou.

Giovanni Pietro Ligario

He has left a ‘‘St. Benedict’’ in the church of the convent at Sondrio, and a ‘‘Descent of the Holy Spirit’‘ in the church at Morbegno.

Harris–Benedict equation

The Harris–Benedict equation sprang from a study by James Arthur Harris and Francis Gano Benedict, which was published in 1919 by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in the monograph “A Biometric Study Of Basal Metabolism In Man”.

Hoskyns baronets

Sir John Hoskyns, grandson of the Venerable Benedict George Hoskyns, sixth son of the ninth Baronet, was Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1979 to 1982.

Jacob of Juterbogk

Benedict Stolzenhagen, known in religion as Jacob, was born at Jüterbog in Brandenburg of poor peasant stock.

JB Magsaysay

Joseph Benedict Aquino Magsaysay, also known as JB Magsaysay (born on July 6, 1980 in San Juan, La Union), is a Filipino actor, a public servant, a businessman and was one of the 13 housemates of ABS-CBN's Pinoy Big Brother, Season 1.

José Dimas Cedeño Delgado

Benedict appointed one of the Archbishop's Auxiliary Bishops, Bishop Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A., to serve as the next Metropolitan Archbishop of Panama.

Leonella

Leonella Sgorbati (1940–2006), an Italian Roman Catholic nun who was murdered in Somalia shortly after controversial comments by Pope Benedict XVI concerning Islam

Marcellin College, Auckland

They founded St Benedict's College (secondary) and St Benedict's School (primary) near St Benedict's Church, Newton in 1886, and in 1898 a large new school was built on the opposite corner from the church.

Maryland Route 231

Before reaching the river, the state highway passes to the north of the village of Benedict, which was the site of the landing of British troops to march toward Washington prior to the Battle of Bladensburg during the War of 1812.

Mauroald

Two charters from 802 and 804 show that Mauroald and his successor Benedict financed the military service of two brothers from the Sabina, Probatus and Picco, sons of Ursus of the Pandoni family, who were serving the army of Charlemagne then targeting the Principality of Benevento.

Moon Shot

Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon is a book written by Mercury Seven astronaut Alan Shepard, with NBC News correspondent Jay Barbree and Associated Press space writer Howard Benedict.

Notker Wolf

During the aftermath of Benedict's Regensburg lecture, he took the position that the Pope was primarily referring to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and those who force conversions rather than to Islam as a whole.

Palace of the Kings of Majorca

On 20 September 1415, the Emperor met with Pope Benedict XIII at the palace with the King Ferdinand I of Aragon and the delegations of the Counts of Foix, Provence, Savoy, Lorraine, the embassy of the Roman church for the Council of Constance, and embassies from the Kings of France, England, Hungary, Castille and Navarre.

Peniscola

The castle where Benedict lived from 1417 until his death in 1423 was restored, improved and new walls were added in 1960 when Anthony Mann's film El Cid was partially filmed there.

Philippe Chéry

He painted 'The Annunciation' in the church of Generville, 'St. Benedict receiving the Viaticum,' and two other religious subjects, which are in the church of Boulogne-sur-Mer, 'St. Cecilia,' in the Benedictine Convent in the same town, and several other scriptural and religious subjects.

Piero Marini

Some surmised that the timing of Marini's departure may be linked to the July 2007 decision by Pope Benedict to liberalise permission for the 1962 Tridentine Mass.

Pope Benedict VI

There is a letter dated to Benedict’s reign from Piligrim, Bishop of Passau, asking for Benedict to confer on him the Pallium, and make him a Bishop so that he could continue his mission to convert the Hungarian people to Christianity.

Pope Benedict XVI and Islam

"I think it is best to leave that to the diplomats, because we don't enter politics. But we do everything for peace. Our goal is simply peace, and we will do everything to help attain peace," Benedict told reporters as he returned from an hour-long hike in the Italian Alps.

Pope Nicholas II

The supporters of Nicholas II then gained control of Rome and forced Benedict X to flee to the castle of Gerard of Galeria.

Purgatory Comics

The film became a major winner at the 2010 Long Island International Film Expo where it won "Best Long Island Feature Film," "Best Actress (Angela Benedict), "Best Supporting Actor (Jonathan Zungre)," and "Best Song (In the Spin by Fox Vulpini).

Renato Corti

He was embrolied in scandal after Pope Benedict XVI on 7 July 2007 issued the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum liberalising the use of the Latin Mass.

Rick Sofield

Sofield also previously worked with Pirates general manager Neal Huntington, assistant general manager Kyle Stark, Triple-A Indianapolis manager Dean Treanor, and pitching coordinator Jim Benedict.

Sacramentum

Sacramentum Poenitentiae, an apostolic constitution published by Pope Benedict XIV in 1741

Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire

This town hosts the Abbaye de Fleury, also known as the Abbaye de Saint Benoît (Saint Benedict Abbey).

Vornbach Abbey

The monastery, dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Saint Benedict, was founded in 1094 by Count Ekkebert of Formbach and his wife Mathilde, and also by Count Ulrich of Windberg.

Waegwan Abbey

St Benedict's Monastery, Seoul, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seoul: Founded in 1958; Fr Clemens In, superior of ten monks.

X-Bomber

Two of the English voice actors, Jay Benedict and Garrick Hagon, had appeared in Star Wars (1977) portraying Deak and Biggs, two of Luke Skywalker's friends on Tatooine (though Hagon's role was reduced in editing and Benedict's scenes were cut altogether).


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