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Blessed Benincasa of Cava

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.

10 January 1194 of natural causes
buried in the crypt of La Cava Abbey
relics to the Chapel of the Fathers at the monastery on 20 October 1675

16 May 1928 by Pope Pius XI (cultus confirmed)

Additional Information

Roman Martyrology

books
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

other sites in english
- Kathereine Rabenstein

sitios en español
- Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición

sites en français
- La fête des prénoms

fonti in italiano
- Santi e Beati

nettsteder i norsk
- Den katolske kirke

MLA Citation

“Blessed Benincasa of Cava“. CatholicSaints.Info. 29 April 2020. Web. 20 January 2021. <>