Bartolo da San Gimignano
Italian Roman Catholic priest
Feast: 12 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Near the town of Celloli in Tuscany, Blessed Bartolo Buonpedoni, priest, who, struck by leprosy at sixty, left the care of his parish and, taking the habit of the Third Order of Saint Francis, patiently gave help to everyone in the hospital where he lived shut away.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 12 December as a priest struck by leprosy who served others patiently in a hospital as a Franciscan tertiary.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 12 December (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q26997486 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Bartolo da San Gimignano (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.