Benedict

== Webster's Dictionary ==

(1):

(a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities.

(2):

(n.) Alt. of Benedick

== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature ==

(See Benedetti); (See Benedictus); (See Benoit).

(Lat. Benedictus Britannicus), a Dominican OF BRESCIA, in Lombardy, who lived in the 15th century, left 53 sermons. Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.

== The Nuttall Encyclopedia ==

The name of fourteen popes:

Romans 574 to 575;

Romans 684 to 685;

Romans 855 to 858;

Romans 900 to 907;

Romans 964 to 965;

Romans 972 to 974;

Romans 975 to 984;

Romans 1012 to 1024; extended the territory of the Church by conquest, and effected certain clerical reforms;

Romans 1033 to 1048, a licentious man, and deposed;

Romans 1058 to 1059;

Romans 1303 to 1304;

Romans 1334 to 1342;

Romans 1724 to 1730;

Romans 1740 to 1758. Of all the popes of this name it would seem there is only one worthy of special mention.