Gerard Majella | |
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![]() Portrait of Gerard Majella. | |
Religious | |
Born | Muro Lucano, Basilicata, Kingdom of Naples | 6 April 1726
Died | 16 October 1755 Materdomini, Campania, Kingdom of Naples | (aged 29)
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church (The Redemptorists and Campagnia, 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. |
Gerard Majella (Italian: Gerardo Maiella; 6 April 1726 – 16 October 1755) was an Italian lay brother of the Congregation of the Redeemer, better known as the Redemptorists, who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.
His intercession is sought for children, unborn children, women in childbirth, mothers, expectant mothers, motherhood, the falsely accused, good confessions, lay brothers and Muro Lucano, Italy.[1]