Gabriel-Maria
The Vatican record
- 21 February 2026 — Long-standing veneration confirmed (equipollent beatification) (decree list, 2026)
Who they were
Gilbert Nicolas, in religion Gabriel-Maria, was a professed priest of the Order of Friars Minor and co-founder of the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary; he was born around 1460 near Riom, France, and died at Rodez on 27 August 1532. On 21 February 2026 Pope Leo XIV approved the decree on his heroic virtue and on the confirmation of his veneration from time immemorial, an equivalent beatification.
The Dicastery's biography says he was confessor to Princess Joan of France and stayed close to her as she founded her new religious order at Bourges.
The miracles
He was beatified by confirmation of long-standing veneration, without an approved miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
Beatified in 2026 by confirmation of long-standing veneration.
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: Gabriel-Maria
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 21 February 2026
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - decrees published in 2026
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - Gabriel-Maria
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Not yet in Wikidata. Name as the Vatican spells it.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.