St. Benedict established his first monastery on top of Monte Cassino.

Pope Benedict II died on 8 May 685.

In 1750, Benedict XIV declared a Holy Year.

Their first victim was Emmanuel's younger brother, Benedict Egbuna.

Benedicte Irgens ( Birgens) observed the elections through her Twitter timeline

So Benedict set off a serious debate in Britain and beyond.

Pope Benedict IV ( died July 903) was Pope from 1 February 900 to his death in 903.

But Benedict asserted the importance of faith alongside reason and law in safeguarding our civilization.

Moritz Benedikt Cantor (23 August 1829 10 April 1920) was a German historian of mathematics.

Above the small group level, human identity is shaped by what Benedict Anderson calls imagined communities.

Will Pope Benedict XVI achieve the breakthrough that his friend and predecessor failed to realize?

Someday, when he grows up, Benedict Jr. will look to us to reconstruct the memories of the father he will never know.

He was born in Breslau, where his father was a professor of political economy.

I don't know if Pope Benedict watches TEDTalks online, but if you do, I've got news for you Benedict I carry condoms all the time and I never get laid.

This is what Benedict does, as does his interlocutor in Britain, the head of the Anglican Communion, Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Pope Benedict XVI, a strict conservative in doctrinal matters, is highly unlikely to countenance such an idea.

Pope Benedict II ( 635 8 May 685) was Pope from 26 June 684 to his death in 685.

Pope Benedict, being from Germany, a predominantly Protestant country, does not carry the weight of this bitter history.

At first, he called himself Benedict XIV, but afterwards altered the title to Benedict XIII (the previous Benedict XIII having been considered an antipope).

Other activities On 22 December 1741, Benedict XIV promulgated the papal bull Immensa Pastorum Principis against the enslavement of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other countries.

To illustrate his argument, Benedict noted that the international financial crash, partly a consequence of insatiable greed, had provoked debate about the need for an ethical basis for economic behavior.

One leading expert on Indonesia, Benedict Anderson, roots Indonesia s nature in its core Javanese culture, particularly the wayang religious tradition.

I drove in the papal cavalcade along the motorway from Edinburgh, where Benedict met Queen Elizabeth, to Glasgow, where he celebrated an open air mass.

As part of this process, Benedict XVI dramatically shortened the number of years that blessed persons had to wait to graduate from beatification to sainthood.

According to Yamada, the BBC drama Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch, with Martin Freeman as his sidekick Watson, is a representative example of this character type For example, there's the detective Sherlock Holmes, who has been been resurrected in the popular contemporary television series on the BBC...

The fact that Pope Benedict and Cardinal Casper are both Germans is important, because Russian German relations are perhaps warmer now than they have ever been.

Although chosen in 683, he was not ordained until 684 because the permission of Emperor Constantine IV was not obtained until some months after the election.

But, as long as he lived, I closely adhered to him. Benedict died on 4 July 965 and was buried in the cathedral in Hamburg.

Benedict Egbuna's five year old son, Benedict Jr., born five months after the slaughter of his father, is a source of comfort to both of us and to all who knew his father.

In a book released on November 23, Pope Benedict XVI declared that in certain cases, when the intention is to reduce the risk of contamination, can even be a first step toward opening the way to a more humane sexuality, lived differently.

NEW YORK In his remarkable apology to the Catholics of Ireland (most of that country s population), Pope Benedict XVI explained why he thought sinful priests were tempted to commit sexual acts with children.

After Benedict had used his extensive supply of gold to gain a large number of followers, the Margrave's influence enabled him to occupy the papal throne for over eight months, from 8 November 1047 until 17 July 1048.

We see the human faces on the notes so often that they come to seem like family, creating what the political scientist Benedict Anderson called the imagined community that underlies and sustains a sense of nationhood.

Although Pope Benedict XVI has clearly stated that the Church opposes death penalty and described it as cruel and unnecessary, Kaczyński, who considers himself a believer, doesn't see any conflict, mentioning the long history of the Church's approval for the death penalty.

Moreover, unlike Pope John Paul II, who, as a Pole, always saw communist Russia as an oppressor, Benedict carries the German sense of guilt stemming from the country s Nazi past and its brutal invasion of Russia.