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Probus of Rieti
SaintResearchedPre-congregation
Feast: 15 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
571
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Rieti, commemoration of Saint Probus, bishop, of whom Pope Saint Gregory the Great wrote a eulogy.
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 15 January as a bishop of Rieti praised by Pope Gregory the Great.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 15 January (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q97256905 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.