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- Benignus_of_Dijon abstract "Saint Benignus of Dijon (French: Saint Bénigne) was a martyr honored as the patron saint and first herald of Christianity of Dijon, Burgundy (Roman Divio). His feast falls, with All Saints, on November 1; his name stands under this date in the Martyrology of St. Jerome. No particulars concerning the person and life of Benignus were known at Dijon. He may have been a missionary priest from Lyon, martyred at Epagny under Aurelian (ruled 270–75), near Dijon.According to Gregory of Tours the common people reverenced his grave, but Gregory's great-grandfather, Saint Gregory, bishop of Langres (507-539/40), wished to put an end to this veneration, because he believed the grave to belong to a heathen. He went about this in the following manner: announcing that he had learned in a nighttime vision that the burial spot (in a large necropolis outside the Roman city) was in fact the previously overlooked grave of the holy martyr Benignus, the bishop had the tomb in which the sarcophagus lay restored, and he built a basilica over it. Saint Benignus' Abbey developed at the site and joined the Cluniac order. In the early eleventh century a larger church was built by its abbot William of Volpiano (died 1031). The abbey church built by Gregory of Langres was superseded by a Romanesque basilica, which collapsed in 1272 and was replaced by the present Dijon cathedral, dedicated to Benignus, where the shrine survived an earthquake in 1280 and the French Revolution. His sarcophagus can still be seen in the crypt.In the time of Gregory of Tours there was a sudden appearance of a passio Sancti Benigni narrating the martyrdom of the saint, said by Gregory to have been brought from Italy to Dijon by a pilgrim, but apparently edited at Dijon in the sixth century. These hagiographic accounts have no historical basis; according to them Polycarp of Smyrna (died ca 155) had sent Benignus as a missionary to Dijon, where he had labored as a priest and had finally died a martyr, placed in the persecution under Aurelian (270–275), a possibility chronologically irreconcilable. Louis Duchesne has proved that these acta are at the head of a whole group of legends which arose in the early years of the sixth century and were intended to demonstrate the early the beginnings of Christianity in the cities of that region (Besançon, Autun, Langres, Valence). "They are historically unreliable, and the very existence of some of the martyrs connected with these places is doubtful."".
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- Benignus_of_Dijon majorShrine Dijon.
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- Benignus_of_Dijon title "Bishop and martyr".
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- Benignus_of_Dijon wikiPageWikiLinkText "Abbey Saint Bénigne, Dijon".
- Benignus_of_Dijon wikiPageWikiLinkText "Benignus of Dijon".
- Benignus_of_Dijon wikiPageWikiLinkText "Benignus".
- Benignus_of_Dijon wikiPageWikiLinkText "Saint Benignus".
- Benignus_of_Dijon wikiPageWikiLinkText "Saint-Benignus".
- Benignus_of_Dijon wikiPageWikiLinkText "Saint-Bénigne".
- Benignus_of_Dijon wikiPageWikiLinkText "St Benignus of Dijon".
- Benignus_of_Dijon wikiPageWikiLinkText "St. Benignus in Dijon".
- Benignus_of_Dijon wikiPageWikiLinkText "St. Benignus of Dijon".
- Benignus_of_Dijon wikiPageWikiLinkText "St. Benignus".
- Benignus_of_Dijon attributes "dog, key".
- Benignus_of_Dijon birthDate "trad. 3rd century".
- Benignus_of_Dijon birthPlace "Smyrna".
- Benignus_of_Dijon caption "Early Romanesque head of Benignus of Dijon. Archaeological museum of Dijon.".
- Benignus_of_Dijon deathDate "trad. 3rd century".
- Benignus_of_Dijon deathPlace "Burgundy".
- Benignus_of_Dijon feastDay "--11-01".
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