Saint of the Day – 20 January – Blessed Benedict Ricasoli OSB Vall (Died 1107) Monk, Hermit of the Vallumbrosan Benedictines, Penitent, Ascetic. Born in Montegrossi, Fiesole, Italy and died on 20 January 1107 in Gaiole in Chianti, Siena of natural causes. Also known as – Benedict of Coltiboni.
Benedict was born in the Village of Montegrossi, in the Diocese of Fiesole, around 1040 and after having lived for a long time in the world, in around 1093, he entered the Monastery of Coltibuono, recently donated to the Vallombrosans by his own family.
Later, with the consent of the Abbot, he went to live in a Hermitage not far away, called Castellaccio, where, amid great penance, he died on 20 January 1107. He was buried in the cloister of the Monastery of Coltibuono, from where his body, on 20 May 1430, was translated to the Church, under the High Altar.
His cult, already celebrated in the Diocese of Fiesole and within the Vallombrosan Order, was approved by St Pope Pius X on 14 May 1907, on the occasion of the eightieth Centenary of his death.
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