Gilbert of Cîteaux

Who they were

At Toulouse, also in France, the anniversary of the death of Blessed Gilbert, abbot of Cîteaux, who, English by origin, was a man of great learning and defended Saint Thomas Becket in exile.

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 17 October as the English-born abbot of Cîteaux who defended Saint Thomas Becket in exile.

Connected on this site

• Thomas Becket Saint
  “At Toulouse, also in France, the anniversary of the death of Blessed Gilbert, abbot of Cîteaux, who, English by origin, was a man of great learning and defended Saint Thomas Becket in exile.” — this site's research