Nov 252008
Profile
Nobility. Educated at Monte Cassino monastery. Poet. Benedictine monk at Monte Cassino under the direction of Blessed Victor III. Deacon of Saint Agatha’s church. Priest. Cardinal in 1059. Abbot at Monte Cassino in 1087. Patron of impoverished scholars of his day. Mediator beween Crusaders and the Greek emperor Alexicus.
Born
- at Marsi, Italy
- 1105 of natural causes
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