Francis of Fabriano
Italian franciscan, blessed
Feast: 22 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Francis Venimbeni, born on 2 September 1251, joined the Franciscans in 1267 and gave his life to preaching in and around his native Fabriano.
A man of prayer and constant study, he insisted that friars preach only sound doctrine in careful language, and founded a library for his friars.
The miracles
He is honoured as Blessed by long-standing veneration; the Catholic Encyclopedia does not describe a formal cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A preaching friar devoted to prayer and sound learning.
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.
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - Blessed Francis of Fabriano
- Wikidata Q3750782 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Francis of Fabriano (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.