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Ponce de Faucigny
BlessedResearched
Feast: 26 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1100
Died
1178
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
—
not yet
Who they were
In the monastery of the Canons Regular of Sixt in Burgundy, now in France, Blessed Ponce de Faucigny, who, once abbot of Abondance, having left that office, wished to die as a simple religious.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 26 November as a former abbot of Abondance who chose to die as a simple religious at Sixt.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 26 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3396135 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.