Here is where he is buried, the Chapel of Santa Maria dei Monti in Rome
And here is an amazing list of his beliefs:
Thirty useful sentiments of the St Benedict Joseph Labre, drawn from the history of his life.
- By the grace of God we can do everything. We can remain unhurt in the midst of the fire, like the three holy youths in the furnace of Babylon.
- Everything may be done by the help of God, provided we have a sincere goodwill.
- To communicate through obedience is better and more pleasing to God, than to abstain from it through humility.
- It is never allowable to use or keep anything when we know it has been stolen.
- It is never lawful to tell a lie; we ought always to speak the truth, whatever it may cost us.
- We offend God, because we do not know his greatness.
- He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.
- The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.
- In this world we are all in a valley of tears. Our consolation is not here; we shall have it eternally in Paradise, if we suffer tribulations on earth.
- God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.
- Where fraternal charity is concerned, everything should be sacrificed.
- Those only are to be called poor and unhappy, who are in hell, who have lost God for eternity, not those who are poor on earth.
- However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.
- Let him who seeks true humility, employ two means: mental prayer, meditating on the greatness of God, and his own nothingness; vocal prayer, asking it of God, through the merits of Jesus and Mary.
- By talking and irreverence in churches, we show disrespect to Almighty God in his own house.
- Acts of irreverence in churches are sins which greatly displease God; they horrify the angels, and do great harm to the soul.
- If there were only one person to be condemned, each should fear to be that one.
- We should often meditate on the pains of hell, in order to abhor mortal sin, which casts us into it for all eternity; and think of the small number of the elect, that we may live in fear.
- The Providence of God is never wanting to him who confides in God as he ought.
- With regard to corporal provision, we should not think of a future day, according to the advice of our blessed Redeemer: "Be not solicitous for the morrow." God who provides for today, will also provide for tomorrow.
Particular sentiments concerning true poverty, which the Servant of God wonderfully loved and practised.
- The poor should live by alms.
- A little suffices for the support of the body; what is superfluous, will only serve to furnish the worms with a greater feast.
- A poor man does not seek a bed in order to sleep, he throws himself down anywhere.
- Conveniences are not for the poor.
- Poor people should not use a loaf; they should be content with fragments.
- The poor should not carry money in their travels.
- The poor should not eat dainties.
- The poor should not be well clad.
- The poor should not drink wine: it is not necessary; water suffices to appease thirst.
