Blessed John Morosini

Memorial

• 5 February

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Benedictine monk at Cuxá, Catalonian Pyranees. Founded the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiiore in Venice, Italy c.982, and served as its first abbot.

Born

• at Venice, Italy

Died

• 1012 of natural causes

Beatified

• never formally beatified, and there is no evidence of popular cultus, but always referred to as beatus

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Kirken i Norge
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Blessed John Morosini“. Saints.SQPN.com. 4 February 2013. Web. 18 June 2013. <>