January 10th

Blessed Benincasa

Blessed · Common of Abbots · Cava de' Tirreni, Italy · d. c. 1194

At the monastery of Cava in Campania, Blessed Benincasa, abbot, who sent a hundred monks into Sicily to the recently built monastery of Monreale, that they might fill it.

Latin Original

In monastério Cavénsi in Campánia, beáti Benincásze, abbátis, qui centum mónachos in Siciliam destinávit ad Montis Regális cceenóbium nuper exstrüctum, ut illud replérent.