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St. Benignus of Armagh

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St. Benignus of Armagh

or Binen, Bishop

Benignus, or Binen, was an early bishop of Armagh associated with St. Patrick. Butler’s short notice emphasizes his piety, gentleness and retirement from the see.

Sources

The life below remains the existing Butler-based reading, with its edition citation. The profile preserves the feast date and source title already listed in the library. Additional personal dates and historical details are shown only when separately documented.

Also called: Binen
Butler identifies this early bishop of Armagh with the mission of St Patrick.

Butler sourceAlban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 9, “St Benignus, or Binen, Bishop,” p. 220.

Butler’s Lives of the Saints (1846)Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 9, “St Benignus, or Binen, Bishop,” p. 220.

The reading

ⓘ Butler source

Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 9, “St Benignus, or Binen, Bishop,” p. 220.

Benignus, also called Binen, belongs to the early history of the Church in Ireland. Butler’s brief notice identifies him as a disciple of St. Patrick and connects him with the succession to the see of Armagh.

The account particularly remembers his piety and the gentleness of his disposition. These are the personal qualities it preserves alongside the episcopal office. Butler also records that he resigned the see before his death, allowing the remembrance of his retirement to stand beside that of his pastoral service.

The notice is short, and this reading does not enlarge it with episodes borrowed from other saints named Benignus. It leaves the exact chronology unasserted and retains the central memory of an early Irish bishop formed in the mission associated with St. Patrick.

Historical note

An original Novena Regina reading adapted and summarized from the cited pre-1962 sources. This is not a transcription of Butler’s words.

This is Benignus of Armagh, distinct from Benignus of Dijon. The notice precedes the November 10 heading and belongs to November 9.

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