He is primarily known for his speech De Corvatiae Desolatione (On the desolation of Croatia) in 1513, as well as for the Glagolithic printing press he founded in 1530, Rijeka.

He was laid to rest in the Franciscan monastery of St. Jerome in Ugljan, where his brother Ivan Donat put up a grave marker.

A retrospective portrait of Bishop Šimun Kožičić Benja is located in the National Museum in Zadar.

At the Fifth Lateran Council in Rome in 1513, Šimun Kožičić Benja delivered two Latin speeches in which he lectured on the hardships of his homeland.

[1] After the Turks attacked Modruš, Benja travelled to Rijeka in 1530 and founded his Glagolitic printing press.