Fortis Gabrielli

Blessed Fortis Gabrielli was a hermit and monk in Umbria, Italy, and reposed in the year 1040, on 9 May according to French sources. The Orthodox calendar commemorates him on 13 May, among the saints of the West before the Great Schism.

He was born around 970 at Gubbio, in the Gabrielli family. He lived as a hermit in the mountains near Scheggia and was later attached to the Benedictine monastery of Fonte Avellana. His body is still displayed in the cathedral of Gubbio. Pope Benedict XIV beatified him on 17 March 1756.