John Gradenigo
Venetian monk and blessed
Feast: 5 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
John Gradenicus, was a Venetian by birth and became a disciple of St. Romuald, the founder of Camaldoli. He is said to have set out, contrary to the holy abbot’s wishes, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but to have suffered so severely from a fall that he repented his rashness and after his recovery lived for thirty years in a hermitage near Monte Cassino. He was an enemy of all sins of the tongue, particularly of detraction. The year of his death is 1012. His memory is honored both at Camaldoli and at Monte Cassino, but he receives no mention in the martyrologies of either house.
The miracles
The source does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A Benedictine Martyrology (1922) remembers him on 4 March.
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.
- A Benedictine Martyrology (Alexius Hoffmann OSB, 1922), 4 March
- Wikidata Q137219479 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.