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Gonçalo de Amarante

Portuguese Catholic saint (1187–1259)

Summary

Portuguese Catholic saint (1187–1259)

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Blessed
name	Gundisalvus of Amarante
honorific_suffix	OP
image	São Gonçalo de Amarante (1618-25) - António André (Museu de Aveiro), cropped.png
birth_date	1187
birth_place	Arriconha, Tagilde, Vizela, Portugal
death_date	10 January 1259 (aged 71)
death_place	Amarante, Portugal
venerated_in	Catholic Church
feast_day	10 January
attributes
patronage
beatified_date	16 September 1561
beatified_place	Saint Peter's Basilica, Papal States
beatified_by	Pope Pius IV

Gundisalvus of Amarante, OP (; 1187 – 10 January 1259) was a Portuguese Catholic priest in the Order of Preachers. He joined the order as a hermit after his return from a long pilgrimage that took him to both Rome and Jerusalem. Pope Pius IV beatified him in 1561.

Life

Gundisalvus was born in 1187 in Portugal to nobles. It was said at his baptism he fixed his intense gaze upon the crucifix as he was being carried to the baptismal font. He was devoted to Jesus Christ in his childhood and decided to become a priest. The Archbishop of Braga ordained Gundisalvus and the latter distributed his great wealth to his nephews. Gundisalvus worked in the parish of Saint Paio de Vizela and obtained leave so as to go to visit Rome and Jerusalem while leaving his nephew, also a priest, in charge of the parish. It was held that he returned from the pilgrimage after just over a decade.

Gundisalvus visited the tombs of Saint Peter and Saint Paul before going to Jerusalem via ship. He returned to find that austere measures he now upheld in his life were something that his nephew did not welcome and who set a dog upon him while viewing him as nothing more than a vagrant. Discernment led Gundisalvus to the Dominicans, the order into which he was admitted and he was allowed to live as a hermit who was in the service of his local people. He built a bridge himself over the Tâmega River.

According to legend, the workers who helped build the bridge once ran out of wine leading him to smack a rock with his stick causing it to split open with wine pouring out of it. On another occasion the workers ran out of food and he went to the water and called out promoting fish to jump onto the river bank providing the workers with food.

Beatification

Gundisalvus died in 1259. Pius IV beatified him on 16 September 1561, his feast day being celebrated on 10 January, the day of his death.

References

(15 January 2011). "Blessed Gonzalo de Amarante". Saints SQPN.
"Blessed Gundislavo Amarante". Santi e Beati.
"Bl. Gonzalo de Amarante". Catholic Online.

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