Thomas of Celano
Italian religious, poet and writer
Feast: 4 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Thomas of Celano was one of the first disciples of St Francis, joining about 1215. He went to Germany and governed its province for a time, then lived in close company with St Francis.
After Francis's canonisation he wrote his First and Second Lives, and a treatise on his miracles. He died about 1255.
The miracles
The Catholic Encyclopedia does not describe his cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
St Francis's disciple and first biographer.
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.
Connected on this site
- Francis of Assisi Saint“1265) was an Italian friar of the Franciscans (Order of Friars Minor) as well as a poet and the author of three hagiographies about Francis of Assisi.” — Wikipedia
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - Thomas of Celano
- Wikidata Q354523 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Thomas of Celano (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.