Gonçalo de Amarante
Portuguese Roman Catholic saint
Feast: 10 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Amarante in Portugal, Blessed Gonçalo de Amarante, priest: a native of Braga, after a long pilgrimage to the Holy Land he entered the Order of Preachers; then, withdrawing to a hermitage, he had a bridge built and helped his followers by prayer and preaching.
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 10 January as a Dominican priest and hermit at Amarante who had a bridge built.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 10 January (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3776432 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Gonçalo de Amarante (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.