At the instance of St. Leonard of Port Maurice, Pope Benedict XIV ( 1740 – 1758 ) forbade the quarrying of the Colosseum and erected Stations of the Cross around the arena, which remained until February 1874.

* Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore ( 1679 – 1715 )

With his death he passed his title, and his claim to Maryland, to his second son Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore ( 1679 – 1715 ), his eldest son Cecil having died young.

Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, 10th Proprietary Governor of Maryland ( 21 March 1679 – 16 April 1715 ) was an English nobleman and politician.

Benedict Leonard Calvert served as Governor of Maryland on behalf of his father from 1684 to 1688.

Like his father, Benedict Leonard Calvert's Catholicism would cause him political difficulties.

Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore

Fortunately Benedict Leonard was able to persuade the Crown to grant him an allowance of £ 300 a year, and Queen Anne even acceded to his nomination of John Hart as governor of the province, on condition that Hart would share with Calvert £ 500 per annum out of his profits from the office.

Two weeks later the old Lord Baltimore died, aged 78, and Benedict Leonard succeeded him to become the 4th Baron Baltimore, immediately petitioning King George I for the restoration of Maryland to his control.

Benedict Leonard Calvert ( 1700 – 1732 ), Governor of the Maryland colony from 1727 through 1731, appointed by his brother, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore.

Benedict Leonard Calvert had arranged for his son Charles to be raised a Protestant, and in 1721 the young Charles came of age and assumed control of the colony of Maryland, which would remain under the control of the Calvert family until 1776.

Benedict Leonard Calvert's portrait, along with those of the other Barons Baltimore, still hangs today in the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, the city that bears his family name.

pl: Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4. baron Baltimore

In 1715, when Charles was fifteen, his grandfather Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore died, passing his title, and his claim to Maryland, to his son Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore ( 1679 – 1715 ).

In 1727 Lord Baltimore appointed his brother, Benedict Leonard Calvert, governor of the colony, replacing his cousin Captain Calvert.

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The Calvert family regained control over the colony in 1715, but only after Benedict Calvert converted to Protestantism.

After Rosalie Stier Calvert died in 1821 and George Calvert in 1838, their son, Charles Benedict Calvert, took over the plantation.

In 1887, the heirs of Charles Benedict Calvert conveyed 474 acres of land to New York City businessmen John Fox and Alexander Lutz in two separate transactions.

* Benedict Swingate Calvert ( c. 1730 – 1788 ), the illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the third Proprietor Governor of Maryland.

* Charles Benedict Calvert ( 1808 – 1864 ), a U. S. Congressman from the sixth district of Maryland, serving one term from 1861 – 1863.

Caroline was half-sister to Benedict Swingate Calvert, a Judge of the Land office with whom Eden shared a love of horse racing.

Benedict Swingate Calvert soon found himself appointed to the Governor's Council.

* Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore ( 13 March 1678 ( Old Style ) – 22 January 1721 ), first married to Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore and secondly to Christopher Crowe, Consul of Leghorn.

However, Benedict Calvert would outlive his father by just two months, and It would fall to Charles ' grandson, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore ( who converted to the Anglican faith ) to see the family proprietorship in Maryland restored by the king.

Benedict Calvert would make strenuous attempts to have his family's title to Maryland restored by renouncing Roman Catholicism and joining the Church of England.

Benedict Calvert correctly calculated that the chief impediment to the restoration of his family's title to Maryland was the question of religion.

Benedict Leonard's devoutly Catholic father Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, furious at his son's apostacy, withdrew his son's annual allowance of £ 450 and ended his support for his grand children's education and maintenance.

Pope Benedict XIV commissioned Pietro Bracci ( 1700 – 1773 ) to sculpt a monument to her memory, which was erected in the Basilica.

* Benedetto Pamphilj, announced the elections of Pope Clement XI ( 1700 ), Pope Innocent XIII ( 1721 ) and Pope Benedict XIII ( 1724 )

* 1927 – Pope Benedict XVI

* 1919 – Benedict Kiely, Irish author ( d. 2007 )

* 2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

* 1342 – Pope Benedict XII ( b. 1285 )

Benedict of Nursia () ( c. 480 – 543 ) is a Christian saint, honored by the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students.

Saint Benedict of Nursia ( c. 480 – 543 ), detail from a fresco by Fra Angelico, Saint Mark's Basilica | San Marco, Florence ( c. 1400 – 1455 ).

Benedict of Aniane ( 747 – 821 ).

* Benedict Biscop ( c 628 – 90 )

* Benedict of Aniane ( 747 – 821 )

* Benedict van Haeften ( 1588 – 1648 )

Meanwhile, under the direction of Benedict XIV ( pope 1740 – 1758 ), a special congregation collected much material for an official revision, but nothing was published.

* 2008 – Paul Benedict, American actor ( b. 1938 )

* 1014 – Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.

* 1649 – Pope Benedict XIII ( d. 1730 )

* 1409 – Western Schism: the Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.

* 965 – Pope Benedict V

* 1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.

* 1751 – Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine and Gorizia.

* 1304 – Pope Benedict XI ( b. 1240 )

* 1976 – Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor

* 1933 – Benedict Groeschel, American priest, author, and talk show host

One of Benedict's primary reforms was to ensure that all religious houses in Louis ' realm adhered to the Rule of Saint Benedict, named for its creator, Benedict of Nursia ( 480 – 550 ), the First Benedict.