Amico di Rambona
Feast: 9 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
According to local tradition, Saint Amicus was born before the year 1000 at Monte Milone (today Pollenza, near Macerata), son of Buongiovanni, lord of the local castle. He became the second Benedictine abbot of Rambona, succeeding Olderic, at an abbey built over the ruins of a pagan temple by the Lombard princess Ageltrude, wife and then mother of emperors.
He is mentioned by Saint Peter Damian in a treatise on simony, listed among men ordained by simoniac bishops who nonetheless lived and died as holy men, with altars raised over their tombs by conciliar authority. His body rests in a stone tomb of 1510 in the crypt of the old abbey church at Rambona, a place of pilgrimage attested by hundreds of coins found there when his relics were examined in 1929.
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
Second Benedictine abbot of Rambona, cited by Saint Peter Damian among holy men ordained by simoniac bishops.
Connected on this site
- Peter Damian Saint“He is mentioned by Saint Peter Damian in a treatise on simony, listed among men ordained by simoniac bishops who nonetheless lived and died as holy men, with altars raised over their tombs by conciliar authority.” — this site's research
- Santi, beati e testimoni (santiebeati.it) - Sant' Amico Abate di Rambona, by Carlo Carletti
- Wikidata Q2696170 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.