Blessed Benincasa of Cava

Memorial

• 10 January

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Benedictine monk. Abbot of La Cava, Salerno, Italy from 1171 to 1194. Helped found a new monastery at Monreale, Sicily, sending a hundred monks to staff it.

Died

• 1194 of natural causes

Beatified

• 1928 by Pope Pius XI (cultus confirmed)

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Benincasa of Cava”. Saints.SQPN.com. 9 January 2011. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-benincasa-of-cava/>