Amadeus of Portugal
Franciscan friar and reformer
Feast: 12 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Amadeus, born in 1420, spent about ten years as a Hieronymite at Guadalupe in Spain, then went to Italy and was received into the Franciscans, attracting notice by his virtue and miracles.
Under the protection of the Archbishop of Milan he founded in 1469 the friary of Our Lady of Peace, centre of a Franciscan reform, protected by the future Sixtus IV. He died at Milan in 1482; the Bollandists attest his title of Blessed.
The miracles
He is honoured as Blessed by long-standing veneration; the Catholic Encyclopedia does not describe a formal cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A friar whose virtue and miracles led a Franciscan reform.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Connected on this site
- Beatrice of Silva Saint Brother or sister“Amadeus of Portugal's younger sister, she is honored as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.” — Wikipedia
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - Amadeus of Portugal
- Wikidata Q2528283 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Amadeus of Portugal (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.