Pacificus of Ceredano
Italian Franciscan preacher
Feast: 4 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Pacificus was born in 1420 at Cerano in the Diocese of Novara and entered the Franciscan Observants at Novara in 1445. After ordination he became a preacher and took part in preaching the crusade against the Turks. He is best known as the author of the Summa Pacifica, a guide to hearing confessions first printed at Milan in 1479.
In 1481 his order sent him to Sardinia to visit its friaries, and he died there on 4 June 1482. His body was brought back to Cerano, he was honoured as a saint at once, and in 1745 Benedict XIV approved his veneration for the Franciscans and the Diocese of Novara.
The miracles
The Catholic Encyclopedia does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A Franciscan preacher and author of a well-known guide for confessors.
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.
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - Bl. Pacificus of Ceredano
- Roman Martyrology, 4 June (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q7122828 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Pacificus of Ceredano (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.