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Pietro Acotanto

Italian monk

BlessedFull write-upRepublic of Venice

Feast: 8 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born

1150

Died

1187

Beatified

—

not needed: before formal processes

Canonised

—

not yet

Who they were

At Venice, Blessed Pietro Acotanto, monk, who out of humility refused the office of abbot and preferred to live as a recluse in a cloister.

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 September as a Venetian monk who refused to be abbot and lived as a recluse.

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 miracle approved by the Holy See is needed for the next step. If you know the postulation’s own page, tell us and it will be added here.

Sources

Roman Martyrology, 23 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
Wikidata Q3903621 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)

Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.