BENEDICT, Archbishop of Milan, Saint. - The surname Crispo has been arbitrarily assigned to him; he occupied the see of Milan from March 685 to March 732. Paul the Deacon says of him that he was "a man of singular holiness, whose good fame spread throughout all Italy" (Hist. Langob., VI, 29, in MGH, Scriptores Langob., p. 174). He went to Rome to uphold his right to consecrate the bishop of Pavia, "who instead in former times was consecrated at Rome" (ibid.). Milanese writers claimed that the extinction of the schism of the Three Chapters, still alive in the city, was due to him, but no ancient testimony records any intervention on his part; thus it is only hypothetical that he was the author of the epitaph of King Caedwalla, who died in Rome in 689. A Medicinae libellus written by the Milanese deacon Crispus, published by Mai, has nothing to do with B. He is venerated today as a saint on September 6.

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BIBL.: Martyr. Romanum, p. 94; M. Manitius, Geschichte der lat. Litt. des Mittelalters, I, Munich 1911, pp. 197-199; P. F. Kehr, Regesta Pontificum, VI, I, Berlin 1913, p. 38; F. Savio, Gli antichi vescovi d'Italia, I: La Lombardia, I, Milan-Florence 1913, pp. 186-91.

Paolo Brezzi

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Benedict, Archbishop of Milan, Saint

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