Gabriel Ferretti
Blessed Italian Franciscan
Feast: 9 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Ancona, Blessed Gabriel Ferretti, priest of the Order of Friars Minor, who shone in caring for children and the sick, in obedience and in the observance of the rule.
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 9 November as a Franciscan priest of Ancona who shone in caring for children and the sick.
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.
Connected on this site
- Pius IX Blessed“He was an ancestor to both Cardinal Gabriele Ferretti and Pope Pius IX having been descended from a long noble lineage.” — Wikipedia
- Roman Martyrology, 9 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3637220 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Gabriel Ferretti (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.