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Gerald of Braga
Benedictine monk
SaintResearchedKingdom of FranceBenedictinesPre-congregation
Feast: 5 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1050
Died
1108
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Braga in Portugal, commemoration of Saint Gerald, bishop, who shone in the work of renewal of the ...…
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 5 December as a bishop of Braga who shone in the work of renewal.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 5 December (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2581925 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Gerald of Braga (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.