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10th-century Italian monk and chronicler
Benedict of Soracte (Benedict of St. Andrew) was a tenth-century Italianchronicler, a monk at the monastery on Mount Soracte. The Catholic Encyclopedia article on Ecclesiastical Annals dates his chronicle to 968, but notes that it "unfortunately, is filled with legends".