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Benedictine monk, now venerated as a saint. He became a hermit and lived an austere life in a cave along the Vah River. Benedict was strangled to death in 1012 by a gang of robbers looking for treasure. He is venerated in Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and the emigrant diasporas in the United States. (Full article...)
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Patronage: Sailors of the
Diocese of Tarnów
, St. Andrew Abbey in Cleveland, Ss. Andrew & Benedict in Detroit