Benedicta of the Endless Orison

"Let us recite this endless litany together. Whose verses chain us to an everlasting prayer that transcends death itself."

**Benedicta** is a boss from Blasphemous 2 located in the Basilica of Absent Faces, and one of the penitents from the Archconfraternity under the service of the Miracle. She belongs to the Confraternity of Endless Orison, and gives the Key of Endless Orison upon defeat that opens one of the cages from the Chapel of the Five Doves.

## Behaviour and Tactics

**Ciborium Summon** - Most of her attacks involve spiked ciboria in some capacity, with the simplest attack only summoning one, which is launched directly at the Penitent One, and when it reaches the end of the arena, it will teleport back to the side it came from once, and disappear. All ciborium attacks do this teleport action.

**Triple Ciborium Summon** - Same as the single summon, only three are spawned instead and cover the entire arena.

**Vertical Ciborium Summon** - Two ciboria will be summoned, one from above and one below the Penitent one, and are only able to be dodged by going to the side.

**Triple Vertical Ciborium Summon** - Six ciboria will be spawned, three above three, covering about half of the arena, meaning the only option to dodge is go between two of the sets.

**Row of Ciboria** - Benedicta will summon an entire row of ciboria from either right to left or right to left, below or above the Penitent One, which will start to take off after all of them are summoned. These are too fast for the penitent one to dash or dodge through and the teleporting walls must be used in order to escape this attack. Interestingly, Benedicta does not fully disappear upon doing this attack, and can be interrupted and stunned out of disappearing, allowing for easy hits to be afflicted upon her. (This disappearing move also happens with other attacks but most prominently happens with this one.

**Galera of the Living Briar** - Not to be confused with the prayer, Benedicta is capable of summoning her own version of the prayer, which has a different color than the version used by the Penitent One and the Ruined Knights. It will always be used three times in a row. This attack is also used as a means to cut the chain holding up one of the large chandeliers during her second phase transition, which limits it to one chandelier.

**Ghostly Spheres** - Summons a circle of eight purple ghostly spheres (visually similar to the red ones spawned by the Demonic Spheres); these are short-lasting yet will home in on the Penitent One, explode upon contact and damage him. When there are two chandeliers, he can use the teleporting walls to get as far as possible from them; when there is only one chandelier, he needs to dodge them by carefully-oriented jumps, slides, or air-dashes; or he can destroy a few of them so as to have an easier time dodging the rest.

## Achievements

Defeat Benedicta of the Confraternity of Endless Orison

## Trivia

* Concept artist Juan Miguel López Barea confirms here that the body Benedicta's ghostly veil carries is her own, not that of the priest whom she prayed for on the night she performed the apocryphal prayer.

## Gallery

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