Saint
Gerard Majella
CSsR
Portrait of Gerard Majella.
Religious
Born
6 April 1726
Muro Lucano, Basilicata, Kingdom of Naples
Died
16 October 1755 (aged 29)
Materdomini, Campania, Kingdom of Naples
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church
(The Redemptorists and Campania, Italy)
Beatified
29 January 1893 by Pope Leo XIII
Canonized
11 December 1904 by Pope Pius X
Major shrine
Shrine of St. Gerard Majella, Materdomini, Avellino, Italy
Feast
16 October
Attributes
Young man in a Redemptorist habit, skull
Patronage
Children (and unborn children in particular); childbirth; mothers (and expectant mothers in particular); motherhood; falsely accused people; good confessions; lay brothers.
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