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Gebhard of Constance
Bishop of Constance
SaintResearchedGermanyPre-congregation
Feast: 27 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
949
Died
995
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
In the monastery of Petershausen, which he founded, in the territory of present-day Switzerland, the burial of Saint Gebhard, bishop of Constance.
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 27 August as a bishop of Constance buried in the monastery of Petershausen he founded.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 27 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q315693 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Gebhard of Constance (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.