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Benedict of Nursia
Benedictus de Nursia la
Founder of Christian monasticism, founder of the Benedictine order (480–547)
- Dated 3 March 480 CE – 23 March 547 CE
- Recognised as Saint
Overview
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Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
Belonged to
Offices held 2
- until 21 March 547 CE abbot of Monte Cassino
- Dates unrecorded founder of Catholic religious community
Family tree
The family as a list · 1
Family 1
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
Studied under 1
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What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
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