Roméo de Limoges
Feast: 4 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Romeo was a 14th-century Carmelite friar whose story is often confused with that of Sant'Avertano, a fellow Carmelite from the diocese of Limoges in France. The two friars were long-time pilgrim companions, travelling first to the Holy Land and then to Rome, and some scholars have suggested that Romeo of Lucca and another of Avertano's companions, the pilgrim Blessed Enrico buried at Lucca and credited with many miracles, may in fact be the same person, which has led their two stories to become intertwined.
On the return journey from Rome, Avertano died at Lucca on 25 February 1380, and Romeo, his travelling companion, died seven days later, on 4 March. The two are buried together at Lucca, today in the church of Saints Paolino and Donato; Romeo's veneration as blessed was confirmed "ab immemorabili" in 1842.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as blessed since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
Carmelite friar and pilgrim companion of Sant'Avertano of Limoges, who died at Lucca seven days after him on 4 March 1380; veneration confirmed "ab immemorabili" in 1842.
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.
- Santi, beati e testimoni (santiebeati.it) - Beato Romeo di Lucca
- Wikidata Q2362081 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.