Anastasius of Cluny
monk and hermit (died 1085)
Feast: 16 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Pamiers near the Pyrenees, also in France, Saint Anastasius, monk, who, born in Venice, first led a hermit's life on the island of Rocher de Tombelaine near Mont-Saint-Michel, then a monastic life at Cluny, and finally withdrew into solitude in his last years.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 16 October as a Venetian-born monk who lived as a hermit at Tombelaine, then at Cluny, and ended his life in solitude.
- Roman Martyrology, 16 October (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q98640259 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.