Benedict II

noun

Saint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.

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Benedict II. a Roman, died 7th May, 685 82.

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The emperor Constantine the Bearded, had, after the Sixth Council, suffered Pope Benedict II., in 684, to be freely elected: but his son, Justinian II., reimposed the yoke.

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St. Leo II. waited eighteen months in 682, after the death of Pope Agatho, and the next Pope, Benedict II., a year in 684.

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Giotto worked there under Benedict II. in 1340.

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Henry, with the bishops and the margrave Boniface, immediately started for the city, which did not shut its gates against him; for Benedict II had hid himself in Tusculum, and his brothers did not venture on any resistance.

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Benedict I Benedict III

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