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Saint Benedict of Aniane

Saint Benedict of Aniane

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Saint Benedict of Aniane c.750–821, French abbot who became a monastic adviser to Louis I . He first founded (c.780) an austere monastic community at Aniane in Languedoc, based on Eastern asceticism. In 799, he founded a large monastery based on the more moderate Benedictine Rule (see Benedict, Saint ). As the leading reformer of French monastic houses, he presided over a series of councils of abbots at Aachen (816–819) that centralized and imposed regulations on all Carolingian monasteries. This legislation was essential to the development of Benedictine dominance in Western monasticism. Feast: Feb. 11. See Benedictines ; monasticism .

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Benedict of Aniane, St (c.750–821), abbot. In 779 he founded on his own property at Aniane in Languedoc a monastery which became the centre of an extended reform of French monastic houses. His systematization of the Benedictine Rule received official approval at Synods of Aachen in 816 and 817. He was probably responsible for the ‘Hucusque’. Feast day, 11 Feb.
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