Benet Academy ( ; often shortened to Benet ) is a co-educational, college-preparatory, Benedictine high school in Lisle, Illinois, United States, overseen by the Diocese of Joliet.

Due to rising costs and waning enrollment, Sacred Heart merged with St. Procopius Academy in 1967 to form Benet Academy on the St. Procopius campus.

The Benet Academy campus in Lisle began as an orphanage.

On July 16, 1911, a new building was dedicated on the grounds of what is now Benet Academy, the same day the cornerstone was laid for the nearby Sacred Heart Convent.

Map of the Benet Academy campus.

Under Abbot Kucera's leadership, St. Procopius Academy and Sacred Heart Academy merged to form Benet ( an anglicized form of " Benedict ") Academy in 1967, on the former St. Procopius campus.

Benet Academy is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the Illinois State Board of Education, and the National Catholic Educational Association.

* Benet Academy official website

Each fall, Neuqua also participates in a women's ' powderpuff football tournament with Waubonsie, Metea, Naperville Central, Naperville North, and Benet Academy in Lisle.

* Benet Academy Redwings

* Benet Academy, Lisle

An alumnus of Benet Academy in Lisle, Illinois, he attended eight different colleges before deciding to pursue an acting career.

His first marriage was to actress Brenda Benet.

It was exposed as a forgery by Mordecai Benet ( amongst others )

The prize ( with an award of $ 3000 ) was granted twice: to Benet Davetian in 1996 for The Seventh Circle, and David Manicom in 1997 for Ice In Dark Water.

The first season's winner was BeBe Zahara Benet, and first runner-up Nina Flowers was chosen by fans as " Miss Congeniality " through voting via the show's official website.

Its history dates back to 1020 when the manor was given by King Canute to the newly founded Abbey of St. Benet at Hulme.

His property was later returned to him ( c. 1646 ) but Jones ended his days, unmarried, living in Somerset House and was subsequently buried with his parents in the Church of St Benet Paul's Wharf, the Welsh church of the City of London.

In 1648 he was preaching at St Benet Fink, to find an adversarial atmosphere in which the Baptist Edward Barber had been invited to contradict him.

* In his short story " The Devil and Daniel Webster " ( 1937 ), Stephen Vincent Benet portrays Metacom as a villain to the colonists, and as being killed by a blow to the head ( he was shot in the heart ).

In 1652 Inigo Jones " the king's architect " was buried in St Benet, with his father and mother.

Bedlington is served by two secondary schools: Bedlingtonshire Community High School and St Benet Biscop Catholic High School, which was recently awarded Business and Enterprise College status, and is sponsored by the Co-operative Group.

In medieval times a corn market was held by St. Benet Gracechurch ( a church destroyed in the Great Fire ) at the junction of Gracechurch Street and Lombard Street, with vendors directed to sell their wares there.

It was later converted into classrooms and renamed Benet Hall ).

The Lisle Village Board blocked construction, charging that Benet had not notified the local community of the pending construction, to which Benet replied that " the school was there prior to the homes being constructed ".

In 1999 Benet was also one of two high schools in DuPage County, and 100 high schools nationwide, featured as an " Outstanding American High School " by US News and World Report.

A statue of him was unveiled by the Prince of Wales in 1869 next to the Royal Exchange, London, on the site of the former church of St Benet Fink ( demolished 1842-6 ).

Hytner was born in Manchester to a Jewish family, the son of barrister, Benet Hytner, QC, and his wife, Joyce.

The Tribune was founded February 21, 1874, by George Staniford and Benet A. Dewes.

Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard ( 2 January 1886 – 18 May 1959 ) was an English explorer of Antarctica.

Benet was judge, 1933 – 1942, followed by Archibald MacLeish, 1944-1946.

" This title hails back to England's separation from the See of Rome, when King Henry, as supreme head of the newly independent church, took over all of the monasteries, mainly for their possessions, except for St. Benet, which he spared because the abbot and his monks possessed no wealth, and lived like simple beggars, disposing the incumbent Bishop of Norwich and seating the abbot in his place, thus the dual title still held to this day.

St Benet Paul's Wharf, London, taken from the top of nearby St Paul's Cathedral.

* St Benet Paul's Wharf from Friends of the City Churches

Aerial view of the Benet campus, from the South, in 1984.

Benet draws students from across the western Chicago suburbs.

Grammy-winning rock singer Dave Bickler, former lead singer of the group Survivor, and Diablo Cody, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno, graduated from Benet, as did former Illinois Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Jim Ryan.

The title is taken from the final phrase of a 20th-century poem titled " American Names " by Stephen Vincent Benet.

He was elected a fellow of Benet College ( now Corpus Christi College ), Cambridge in 1623 and then served as Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1634.

Vuissane reported to have hoped to marry Bernard, but he was only interested in a wife from a wealthier family and eventually married Guillemette Benet.

He is known from the writings of William Worcester, who recorded him as the first hermit of St Benet Hulme.

:: — Passage from Army of Northern Virginia, a poem by Stephen Vincent Benet

Benet argues that in support of the theory that reads cannabis as an ingredient of the holy anointing oil is that most of the other ingredients, if not all, are also theorized to come from Central Asian lands in which, Benet claims, cannabis was frequently used for spiritual ( Scythian ) and medicinal use ( sana of the Buddhist vinya shared by many ancient schools of Buddhism ).

Benet claims that traditional identifications of kaneh bosom do not account for hemp shirts being produced from industrial hemp, which Benet claims is " Kaneh " in Hebrew.

Benet claims that this kaneh differs from the " fragrant " or " sweet " hemp called especially kaneh bosm, because the latter produces much more of aromatic and psychotropic substances like CBD and THC.

Benet brought out official editions of the first two parts of his work, but unfortunately not of the third, because he sensed stirrings of criticism from orthodox theologians about the boldness of his teachings on the higher levels of prayer.