Nicholas of Flüe [SEP] canonization status
Nicholas of Flüe
Saint Nicholas of Flüe (; 1417 – 21 March 1487) was a Swiss hermit and ascetic who is the patron saint of Switzerland. He is sometimes invoked as Brother Klaus. A farmer, military leader, member of the assembly, councillor, judge and mystic, he was respected as a man of complete moral integrity. Brother Klaus's counsel to the Diet of Stans (1481) helped to prevent war between the Swiss cantons.
Earlier life.
He was born in 1417, in the canton
Salvador of Horta
- Giovanni Leonardi
Modern canonization Pontificate of Pius XII (33).
- 2 May 1940
- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
- Gemma Galgani
- 19 November 1943
- Margaret of Hungary
- 7 July 1946
- Francesca S. Cabrini
- 15 May 1947
- Nicholas of Flüe
- 22 June 1947
- Bernardino Realino
- John de Brito
- Joseph Cafasso
- 6 July 1947
- Joan Elizabeth Bichier des Âges
- Michael Garicoits
- 20 July 1947