ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 7th of May WELCOME! SAINT BENEDICT II., POPE AND CONFESSOR ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index He was a native of Rome, and having been brought up from his infancy in the service of the church, was well skilled in the holy scriptures, and in the ecclesiastical chanting, or church music, of which he was a devout admirer. To sing assiduously the divine praises on earth is a kind of novitiate to the state of the blessed in heaven, and an employment the most sweet and comfortable to a soul that truly loves God. IT WAS NECESSARY TO WAIT ALMOST A YEAR Benedict was always humble, meek, patient, mortified, a lover of poverty, and most generous to the poor. Being ordained priest, he had a share in the government of the Roman Church under the pontificates of Agatho and Leo II . Benedict was chosen pope upon the death of the latter, in 683, but to obtain the emperor’s consent, it was necessary to wait almost a year, till the return of m...