BENEDETTO dei GRAZZINI, known as da ROVEZZANO. — Sculptor, born in Campale (Pistoia) in 1474, died at Vallombrosa around 1552. Trained in the style popularized by Benedetto da Maiano, he infused his compositions with lively plasticity, though they never achieved clear formal balance due to the dispersive effect of his exuberant decorative style.
BENEDETTO GIUSEPPE LABRE, Saint — Portrait painted by A. Cavallucci (1752–95) — Rome, National Gallery of Ancient Art.
They served in guarding the tombs of their victims, who immediately received public veneration as martyrs.
In 1038, Duke Bretislao of Bohemia, who had already taken possession of the body of St Adalbert, exhumed and brought to Olmütz the relics of the “five brothers,” as they soon began to be called. The confirmation of their cult by Julius II is an invention of the 17th century. The Roman Martyrology commemorates them on 12 November, the day of their deposition.