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BENEDICT OF ALIGNAN (d. 1268)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 719 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENEDICT OF ALIGNAN (d. 1268)  ,
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Benedictine abbot of Notre Dame de la Grasse (1224) and bishop of
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Marseilles (1229), twice visited the
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Holy
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Land (1239 and 126o), where he helped the
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Templars build the
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great castle of Safet . He founded a short-lived order, the Brothers of the Virgin, suppressed by the 'Council of Lyons (1274), and died a Franciscan . His writings include a letter to Innocent IV. and De construction Castri Saphet (Baluze, Miscellanea, ii.) .

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