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Onuphrius of Catanzaro
hermit near Catanzaro
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 4 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
In the woods of Panaia near Catanzaro, Saint Onuphrius, hermit, remarkable for his fasts and the austerity of his life.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 4 August as a hermit in the woods of Panaia near Catanzaro, remarkable for his fasts and austerity of life.
Sources
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