Venerable
John Gradenigo
A Venetian nobleman who became a monk at the Abbey of Cuxa in the Pyrenees, and reposed around 1025.
- Feast
- December 5old style December 18
- Reposed
- 102511th century
- Place
- Cuxa Abbey
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint John Gradenigo was a nobleman of Venice who became a monk at the monastery of Cuxa in the Catalan Pyrenees in Spain. After many trials he reposed as a hermit near Monte Cassino, in 1025.
The sources give no other details. He is a saint of the undivided Church and is commemorated on 5 December (New Calendar).
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