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Benedict: Encyclopedia - William P. Benedict

Lieutenant Colonel William P. Benedict was an American pilot from California. He is best known for having flown together with Lt. Col. Joseph O. Fletcher a U.S. Air Force C-47 modified to have skis and wheels to the North Pole, where they became the first humans to land a plane on May 3, 1952 and (together with scientist Albert P. Crary) the first persons to set foot on the exact geographical North Pole. Benedict later worker as a firefighting pilot in California. He was killed while dropping fire ret ...

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Benedict: Encyclopedia - Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI; Spanish: Benedicto XVI; French: Benoît XVI), born Joseph Alois Ratzinger (April 16, 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany), is the 265th and reigning pope, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State. He was elected on April 19, 2005, in a papal conclave over which he presided in his capacity as dean of the College of Cardinals. He celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on April 24, 2005, and took possession of his cath ...

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Benedict: Encyclopedia - Benedict of Nursia

Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – 547), born at Nursia (Norcia), Italy, was the founder of western monasticism. Many of those monastic men and women belong to a Christian religious order named in his honor, the Order of Saint Benedict. The only authentic life of Benedict of Nursia is that contained in the second book of St. Gregory's Dialogues. It is more of a character sketch than a biography and consists, for the most part, of a number of miraculous incidents, which, although they illustrate the life of the s ...

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Benedict: Encyclopedia - Order of Saint Benedict

This article is about the Roman Catholic order; see also Benedictine Confederation and Benedictine. The Order of Saint Benedict — full Latin name: Ordo Sancti Benedicti , initials: OSB — is a monastic order within the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes referred to as the Benedictine Order, where the Rule of St Benedict is observed, supplemented by later constitutions and modern customaries. It is fundamentally different from other Western religious orders: there is no legal entity within the Church ...

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Benedict: Encyclopedia - Avignon Pope Benedict XIII

Benedict XIII, born Pedro Martínez de Luna, (b. Illueca, Aragon, 1328; d. Peñíscola, near Valencia, 1423) was an Aragonese, and is considered by many Roman Catholics an Antipope. Pedro de Luna was born at Illueca in Aragon (part of modern Spain) in 1328. He belonged to the de Luna family, who were part of the Spanish noblility. He studied law at the University of Montpellier, where he obtained his doctorate and later taught canon law. His knowledge of canon law, noble lineage and austere way of life won him the approval of Pope Gregory XI, who appointed de Luna to the position o ...

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Benedict: Encyclopedia - Coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI

The coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI was designed by Archbishop Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo soon after the papal election. The coat of arms consists of a shield and external ornaments. Coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI - Shield. The shape of the shield varies from artist to artist. In the initial rendering of the coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI the shape chosen was that of a chalice. In heraldry, the herald and the person granted arms have considerable leeway in the contents of the shield. By lon ...

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Benedict: Encyclopedia - Benedict Joseph Labre

Saint Benedict Joseph Labre (1748 - 1783) was a French mendicant and Roman Catholic saint. The oldest of fifteen children, he was born in Amettes, near Arras in the north of France, and was religious from a very early age. He was noted for performing public acts of penance for his sins, even minor sins. At the age of sixteen, he attempted to join the Trappists, Carthusians, and Cistercians, ...

Benedict: Encyclopedia - Papal Coronation

The Papal Coronation was a six-hour ceremony in which a new pope was crowned as head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City (and before 1870, head of state of the Papal States). A three-tiered Triple Tiara or Papal Tiara was used in the ceremony, and the new pope would take the papal oath. Papal Coronation - Location of the ceremony. The first papal coronations took place in St. John Lateran, the pope's cathedral. However traditionally for hundreds of years papal coronations have ...

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Benedict: Encyclopedia - Relativism

Relativism is the view that the meaning and value of human beliefs and behaviors have no absolute reference. Relativists claim that humans understand and evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical and cultural context. Philosophers identify many different kinds of relativism depending upon what allegedly depends on something and what something depends on. The term is often used for truth relativism - the doctrine th ...

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Benedict: Encyclopedia II - Benedict Kansas - Geography

Benedict is located at 37°37'37" North, 95°44'37" West (37.627014, -95.743500)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.4 km² (0.2 mi²). 0.4 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water. ...

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