Welcome to the MedLibrary.org Wikipedia Supplement on Benedict -- Please Click to Return to Front Page

Benedict most commonly refers to Saint Benedict of Nursia, the founder of the Order of Saint Benedict and thereby of Western monasticism. It may also may refer to:

Contents 1 People 1.1 Saints 1.2 Popes 1.3 Antipopes 1.4 Other 1.4.1 Given name 1.4.2 Surname 1.5 Fictional 2 Places 3 Miscellaneous 4 See also

People

Saints

• Benedict of Aniane
• Benedict Biscop
• Benedict the Bridge-Builder, also known as Bénézet
• Benedict Crispus
• Benedict Joseph Labre
• Benedict the Moor, also known as Benedict the Black

Popes

• Pope Benedict I
• Pope Benedict II, also a saint
• Pope Benedict III
• Pope Benedict IV
• Pope Benedict V
• Pope Benedict VI
• Pope Benedict VII
• Pope Benedict VIII
• Pope Benedict IX
• Pope Benedict XI
• Pope Benedict XII
• Pope Benedict XIII
• Pope Benedict XIV
• Pope Benedict XV
• Pope Benedict XVI, current pontiff

Antipopes

• Antipope Benedict X
• Antipope Benedict XIII
• Antipope Benedict XIV

Other

Given name

• Benedict Arnold, American general
• Benedict Carpenter, British artist
• Joseph Benedict Chifley (Ben Chifley), former Prime Minister of Australia
• Benedikt Roezl, Czech botanist

Surname

• Clare Benedict, American author
• Dirk Benedict (pseudonym), American actor
• Jacques Benedict, American architect
• Sir Julius Benedict, English composer and conductor
• Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist
• Stanley Rossiter Benedict, the American chemist who invented Benedict's reagent, a test for reducing sugars

Fictional

• Bénédict the title character in Berlioz's opera Béatrice et Bénédict
• Benedick, a character from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The character is the source of the word "benedict", meaning a newly married man who has long been a bachelor.

Places

• Benedict College, South Carolina, USA
• Benedict Glacier, on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
• Benedict, Kansas, USA
• Benedict, Nebraska, USA
• Benedict, Maryland, USA
• San Benedicto Island, Mexico
• St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School, Ontario, Canada
• Benedikt (Slovenia), a municipality in Slovenia
• Benedict (crater), a lunar crater

Miscellaneous

• Eggs Benedict, a breakfast dish
• Benedict's reagent, a test for aldehydes in Chemistry

See also

• São Bento, Portuguese for Saint Benedict
• Benediction
• Benedictine Order

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

Wikipedia content modification information:

• This page was last modified on 2 November 2008, at 21:16.

Wikipedia Authorship and Review

Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.

Wikipedia Usage Guidelines

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Benedict".

The URL for this specific entry is:

• http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Benedict

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.