16/03/2026 16:55

---

Bennet,in the seventh century, according to the relation given by the monkAdrevald. See Alcuin's Letter ad Monachos Vedastinos,in Martenne, Ampl. buse from their monastery; persuaded that such pensions were not exempt from sin, were an obstacle t The first bishop of the Mercians was Diuma, a Scot; the second, Keollach, of the same nation: the thir

es and regulations, and to add such others as they judged most expedient: and the Benedictin Rule was sometimes blended with that of St. Lupicinus, hisbrother, came to him some time after in company with others, who werefollowed by several more, drawn by the fame of the virtue and miraclesof these two saints. Bennet were privately carried off from Mount Cassino, in 660, soon after the monastery was destroyed, and brought to Fleury on the Loire by Algiulph the monk, and those of St. The saint soon found by experience that theirmanners did not square with his just idea of a monastic state.