Venturino of Bergamo
Italian venerated Christian
Feast: 28 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Venturino joined the Dominicans at Bergamo in 1319 and from 1328 won fame preaching through northern Italy. In 1335 he led about thirty thousand converts on a penitential pilgrimage to Rome, which was misunderstood; he was imprisoned from 1335 to 1343.
Restored to favour by Clement VI, he preached a crusade against the Turks with remarkable success. He died at Smyrna on 28 March 1346.
The miracles
The Catholic Encyclopedia does not describe his cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A preacher who led multitudes to penance.
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.
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - Venturino of Bergamo
- Wikidata Q4009777 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Venturino of Bergamo (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.