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Gilbert de Moravia
Bishop of Caithness
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 1 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1101
Died
1245
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Caithness in Scotland, Saint Gilbert, bishop, who built the cathedral church at Dornoch and set up hospices for the poor; at the point of death he commended what he himself had kept throughout his life: to do harm to no one, to bear divine correction with patience, and to be a burden to no one.
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 1 April as a bishop of Caithness who built the cathedral at Dornoch and hospices for the poor.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 1 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q5561307 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Gilbert de Moravia (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.