Gerard of Gallinaro

Who they were

Gerard of Gallinaro is honoured with his companions Arduin, Bernard and Fulk in several Italian towns, where local tradition says they were pilgrims from England who went to the Holy Land and to the shrine of St Michael on Monte Gargano, dying in the Abruzzi. Some place them in the seventh century, others in the twelfth.

Butler notes that their date, history and even existence are uncertain, and that the most trustworthy record, from the early thirteenth century, makes Gerard a man of the Auvergne at the time of the First Crusade. He is venerated by great crowds at Gallinaro every 11 August.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

A pilgrim saint honoured at Gallinaro in central Italy.