Henry of Asti
Italian Roman Catholic patriarch and blessed
Feast: 17 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Henry of Asti (Enrico d'Asti, also seen as Enrico Comentina; died 17 January 1345) was the titular Latin Catholic patriarch of Constantinople from 1339 and bishop of Negroponte in Frankish Greece. His fame rests on his leadership of the first Smyrniote crusade (1342–45), on which he died.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
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.
- Santi, beati e testimoni - BeatoEnrico da Comentina — Santiebeati.it, the Italian Catholic saints dictionary, carries a full entry: BeatoEnrico da Comentina - Patriarca di Costantinopoli, martire | † Smirne, Turchia, 17 gennaio 1345.
- Wikidata Q3725698 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Henry of Asti (CC BY-SA)
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