Nicola da Forca Palena
Feast: 29 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Rome, Blessed Nicola da Forca Palena, priest of the Order of Hermits of Saint Jerome, who founded the monastery of Saint Onuphrius on the Janiculum hill, where he rested in the Lord at a hundred years of age.
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 29 September as a Hieronymite hermit priest who founded Saint Onuphrius on the Janiculum.
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.
Connected on this site
- Pietro Gambacorta Blessed“Nicola da Forca Palena (10 September 1349 – 1 October 1449) was an Italian member of the Third Order of Saint Francis and the co-founder of the Poor Hermits of Saint Jerome, along with Pietro Gambacorta.” — Wikipedia
- Roman Martyrology, 29 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3876401 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Nicola da Forca Palena (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.