Johannes Bonus
Feast: 16 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Mantua, Blessed John Bonus, hermit, who, as a young man, having left his mother, wandered through various regions of Italy working as a juggler and comic actor, but at the age of forty, after falling seriously ill, vowed to God to abandon the world to give himself wholly in penance and love to Christ and the Church, and founded a Congregation under the rule of Saint Augustine.
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 23 October as a former juggler and actor who became a hermit and founded a Congregation under the rule of Saint Augustine.
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, 23 October (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q1697291 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.