Umberto III, Count of Savoy
Count of Maurienne, Count of Savoy, Marquess in Italia and Blessed
Feast: 4 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Chambéry in Savoy, in present-day France, Blessed Umberto, third Count of Savoy, who, though forced to leave the cloister to attend to public affairs, practised the monastic life with great dedication, and later returned to it.
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 4 March as a Count of Savoy who kept the monastic life with great dedication and later returned to the cloister.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 4 March (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q664561 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Humbert III of Savoy (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.