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Venerius the Hermit
7th-century Italian saint
SaintResearchedPre-congregation
Feast: 13 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
560
Died
630
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
On the island of Tino in the Gulf of La Spezia, Saint Venerius, hermit.
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 13 September as a hermit on the island of Tino.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 13 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2899778 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Venerius the Hermit (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.