Blessed Cosmas Of Palermo

Feast Day

12 September (diocese of Carthage; archdiocese of Palermo, Italy until dropped from the calendar in 1976); 10 September (Bollandists)

Born

Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Died

10 September 1160 of natural causes, either in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, or in North Africa while celebrating Mass, and his body was brought back to Palermo (records vary) ; in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, or; in North Africa while celebrating Mass, and his body was brought back to Palermo (records vary); in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, or; in North Africa while celebrating Mass, and his body was brought back to Palermo (records vary); buried in the crypt of the cathedral of Palermo; his grave became a point of pilgrimage, and miraculous healings were reported, especially of fevers; relics enshrined inside the cathedral of Palermo in 1369; relics moved to the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in 1580 when part of the cathedral was demolished and re-built; relics moved to the altar of Blessed Peter de Geremia on 27 November 1736 during a survey of all the relics in the cathedral complex; relics transferred to the Chapel of the Sacristy of the Canons in the cathedral on 10 December 1909; relics transferred to the chapel of the palace of the archbishop of Palermo on 22 December 1909; relics transferred to the Chapel of Relics in the Palermo cathedral on 5 February 1910

Beatified

Popular devotion developed immediately upon his death; inscribed in the Proper of the diocese of Palermo, Italy in 1737; his memorial on 12 September was added to the calendar of the diocese of Palermo in 1771; beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1887 (cultus confirmation), and a Mass and office were granted in his memory