Saint Benedict of Aniane (Subscribe)
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The Ecole Glossary: Benedict of Aniane
http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/glossary/benedictan.html
Short biography, by Karen Rae Keck.
St. Benedict of Anian, Abbot
http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/BOFANIAN.htm
From Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.
Catholic Encyclopedia: Western Monasticism
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10472a.htm
About halfway down this article, there is a paragraph on St. Benedict of Aniane.
Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Benedict of Aniane
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02467a.htm
St. Benedict was a Goth, served in the Frankish court, then became a Benedictine monk. His monastery of Aniane was the model for monastic reform in France and the Empire. He died in 821.