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Stephen of Rieti
abbot at Rieti
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 13 February (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
At Rieti, commemoration of Saint Stephen, abbot, a man of wonderful patience, as Pope Saint Gregory the Great testifies of him.
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 13 February as an abbot at Rieti whose wonderful patience Pope Saint Gregory the Great recorded.
Sources
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