[1] When he was elected the general superior on June 5, 1267, the order, which had long been the object of attack from enemies, entered into the crisis of its existence.

According to a certain sixteenth century legend regarding Benizi, he encountered with an eighteen-year-old Peregrine Laziosi, the son of a Ghibelline leader, was among those abusive towards Philip.

Philip died on August 22, 1285, during the Octave of the Assumption at Todi, where he is buried in the church of San Filippo Benizi.

[5] The Church of the Servites of Mary in Todi, Umbria, contains the body of Philip Benizi, whose statue is the work of Bernini.

There are churches named for Saint Philip Benizi in: Black Canyon City, Arizona; Fullerton, California; Belle Glade, Florida; Jonesboro, Georgia,[6] Chicago, Illinois; Grafton, Massachusetts; Viburnum, Missouri; Darby, Montana; Creswell; Oregon City, Oregon; Moncks Corner, South Carolina; Poteet, Texas; Ford, Washington; and Trapper Creek, Alaska.

Five scenes from his life were painted in the early 16th century by the Florentine Andrea del Sarto: "His Charity to a Leper", "The Smiting of the Blasphemers", "The Cure of the Woman Possessed with a Devil", "The Resurrection of a Child before the bier of the Saint", and "The Veneration of his Relics".