Benno
bishop and saint
Feast: 16 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Benno (c. 1010 – 16 June 1106) was named Bishop of Meissen in 1066. Venerated since the 13th century, he was canonized in 1523. Benno did much for his diocese, both by ecclesiastical reforms on the Hildebrandine model and by material developments. He was venerated in his native Saxony throughout the Late Middle Ages.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q61625 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Benno of Meissen (CC BY-SA)
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