# St. Benedict — The Divine Comedy character guide

> St. Benedict in The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Benedict

**First appearance:** 0093-canto-xxii

## Who they are

Founder of Western monasticism, appears in the Heaven of Saturn.

## In the story

### [Canto XXII: St. Benedict's Lament and the Eighth Heaven](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_divine_comedy_se/chapters/canto-xxii)

Appears as the largest and most luculent pearl. He laments the corruption of monks and his Rule being wasted, and speaks of his founding of Monte Cassino.

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