The Blessed

Beatification

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 Benedict of Alignan (died 1268) was Benedictine

Benedictine

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 abbot

Abbot

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 of Nôtre Dame de la Grasse (1224) and Bishop of Marseille (1229).

He twice visited Palestine

Palestine

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 (1239–1242 and 1260–1262), where he helped the Knights Templar

Knights Templar

The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon , commonly known as the Knights Templar, the Order of the Temple or simply as Templars, were among the most famous of the Western Christian military orders...

 build the great castle of Safet

Safet

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He founded a short-lived order, the Brothers of the Virgin, which was suppressed by the Council of Lyon

Council of Lyon

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 (1274), and died a Franciscan

Franciscan

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. His writings include a letter to Pope Innocent IV

Pope Innocent IV

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, De constructione Castri Saphet (Baluze, Miscellanea, ii.), and De Summa Trinitate et Fide Catholica in Decretalibus (circa 1260).