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Benedictine

9 dated entries naming Benedictine, drawn from 9 separate years between 675 CE and 1923 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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7th century

  • 675February 21 – Randoald of Grandval, prior of the Benedictine monastery of Grandvalsource

11th century

  • 1070August 15 – The Pavian-born Benedictine Lanfranc is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in England.source

12th century

  • 1107Saracen pirates raid the Benedictine monastery of Saint Honorat, on the Lérins Islands .source
  • 1125Saracen pirates raid the city of Antibes in Provence and the Benedictine monastery of Saint Honorat on the Lérins Islands (French Riviera).source
  • 1132Basingwerk Abbey originally Benedictine, and later Cistercian, is founded near Holywell in Wales.source

15th century

  • 1440March 9: Frances of Rome, Italian Benedictine nun and saint (b. 1384)source

17th century

  • 1605The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at Douai, Flanders, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands, by its first prior, John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the English Reformation. More than two centuries later the community will establish Downside Abbey back in England.source

19th century

  • 1863The recipe for the herbal liqueur Bénédictine is devised by Alexandre Le Grand in Fécamp, France.source

20th century

  • 1923January 30 – Columba Marmion, Irish Benedictine and Roman Catholic monk and blessed (b. 1858)source

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