Deusdedit of Monte Cassino

Saint Deusdedit of Monte Cassino was a monk at the monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy, and around 830 he was chosen abbot. He was noted for his almsgiving. A tyrant ill-⁠treated and imprisoned him in order to extort money, and he died in prison of hunger and misery, in 836, and was venerated as a martyr. He is commemorated on 9 October, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.