Bartolomeo Maria Dal Monte
Italian presbyter
Feast: 24 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Bartolomeo Maria Dal Monte was born at Bologna on 3 November 1726, ordained priest in 1749 and graduated in theology in 1751.
He preached missions to the people and the clergy in 62 Italian dioceses, and founded the Pious Work of the Missions to prepare diocesan priests for mission preaching. He died on 24 December 1778.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A priest who preached missions across Italy and trained priests to do the same.
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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Bartolomeo Maria Dal Monte
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 27 September 1997
- Wikidata Q9166298 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Bartolomeo Maria Dal Monte (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.