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Alberto da Prezzate
Italian religious
SaintFull write-upBenedictinesPre-congregation
Feast: 2 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1025
Died
1095
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Pontida in the province of Bergamo, Saints Alberto and Vitus, monks, of whom the first put the service of Christ before arms and worldly honours and founded in his city a monastery shaped by the Cluniac customs, 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 man who left arms and worldly honours for Christ and founded a Cluniac monastery at Pontida.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 2 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3608666 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.