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Benedictine or benedictine spread is a spread made with cucumbers and cream cheese. [1] [2] [3] Invented near the beginning of the 20th century, [1] it was originally and still is used for making cucumber sandwiches, but in recent years it has been used as a dip [3] [4] or combined with meat in a sandwich.
To market it, Le Grand embellished a story of it having been developed by monks at the Benedictine Abbey of Fécamp in Normandy and produced by them until the abbey's devastation during the French Revolution. [2] [better source needed] Le Grand began production under the trade name "Bénédictine", using a bottle with a distinguishing shape and ...
A statue of Alexandre Le Grand in the Palais Bénédictine. Alexandre-Prosper-Hubert Le Grand (6 June 1830 – 25 June 1898) was a wine merchant and industrialist of the 19th century who, in 1863, invented the liqueur known as Bénédictine [1] from a mixture of native herbs and exotic spices.
There are now over 100 Benedictine houses across America. Most Benedictine houses are part of one of four large Congregations: American-Cassinese, Swiss-American, St. Scholastica, and St. Benedict. The congregations mostly are made up of monasteries that share the same lineage.
A Benedictine monk has been suspended from ministry after the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore recently became aware of a payment he made several years ago to settle sexual harassment allegations.
Statue of Dom Pérignon at Moët & Chandon. Dom Pierre Pérignon (French: [dɔ̃ pjɛʁ peʁiɲɔ̃]; December 1638 – 14 September 1715), was a French Benedictine monk who made important contributions to the production and quality of Champagne wine in an era when the region's wines were predominantly still red.
Harrison Butker is opening up publicly for the first time about the controversial commencement speech he gave at Benedictine College, a small Catholic liberal college in Kansas.. During his speech ...
Chris Unger/Getty Images The nuns of Benedictine College have made it clear they do not approve of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s commencement address. Butker, 28, delivered the ...