Blessed Gerard
Founder of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem
Feast: 13 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Gerardo Sasso (c. 1040 – 3 September 1120), also known as Blessed Gérard, was an Italian lay brother in the Benedictine Order in the Catholic Church who was appointed as rector of the hospice in Jerusalem at Muristan in 1080. In the wake of the success of the First Crusade in 1099, he became the founder of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, also known as the Knights Hospitaller, an organization that received papal recognition in 1113. As such, he was the first Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
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.
- Santi, beati e testimoni - BeatoGerardo Sasso — Santiebeati.it, the Italian Catholic saints dictionary, carries a full entry: BeatoGerardo Sasso - Fondatore dell'Ordine di Malta | ca. 1040 – Gerusalemme, 3 settembre 1120.
- Wikidata Q559527 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Gerard Sasso (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.