Vitus of Pontida
monk who governed the monastery of Pontida
Feast: 2 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Pontida in the province of Bergamo, Saints Albert and Vitus, monks, of whom the first set the service of Christ before arms and the honours of the world and founded in his own town a monastery modelled on the customs of Cluny, which the second governed.
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 2 September as a monk at Pontida near Bergamo who governed the monastery founded there by Saint Albert.
- Roman Martyrology, 2 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R4c03da76 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.