Avertanus of Lucca
Feast: 25 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Avertanus was born at Limoges, felt called from childhood, and became a Carmelite lay-brother there, given to prayer, humble work and a horror of money. With the prior's leave he set out with a companion, Romaeus, on pilgrimage to the Holy Places, crossing the Alps in winter.
Italy was in the grip of plague and the cities were closed. At the hospital of St Peter outside Lucca, Avertanus caught the disease and died, foretelling that Lucca would honour him and the hospital would pass to the Carmelites; Romaeus died soon after. Butler dates their death to 1380.
The miracles
The source does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A Carmelite lay-brother and pilgrim who died of plague outside Lucca.
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.
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, ed. Thurston and Attwater (1956), vol. I - 25 February
- Wikidata Q61870814 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.