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Eberhard of Friuli
Frankish saint
SaintResearchedRepublic of VenicePre-congregation
Feast: 16 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
815
Died
867
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Cysoing in the region of Artois in France, Saint Eberhard, who, Count of Friuli, founded in this place a monastery of canons regular, where some years after his death he was devoutly laid to rest.
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 December as the Count of Friuli who founded a monastery of canons regular at Cysoing.
Connected on this site
- Rabanus Maurus Saint“He kept a large library, commissioned works of Latin literature from Lupus Servatus and Sedulius Scottus, and maintained a correspondence with the theologians and church leaders Gottschalk, Rabanus Maurus, and Hincmar.” — Wikipedia
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 16 December (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q919247 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Eberhard of Friuli (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.