Blessed Giovanni Maria Boccardo
Also known as: Father of the Poor
Feast Day
30-Dec
Born
20 November 1848 in Ca’Bianca, Moncalieri, Turin, Italy
Died
30 December 1913 in Moncalieri, Turin, Italy of natural causes; re-interred at the mother house of the Poor Daughters of Saint Cajetan in Pancalieri, Italy in 1924
Beatified
24 May 1998 by Pope John Paul II; the beatification miracle involved the complete healing from cancer of 80-year-old Lina Alvez De Oliveira of Sao Paolo, Brazil on 12 February 1968
Venerated
6 April 1998 by Pope John Paul II (decree on heroic virtues)
Biography
Blessed Giovanni Maria Boccardo, also known as the "Father of the Poor," was born on 20 November 1848 in Ca’Bianca, Moncalieri, Turin, Italy. He was the eldest of ten children born to Gasparo Boccardo and Giuseppina Malerba. Coming from a devout family, he was baptized at just one day old, and three of his brothers would later become priests, including Blessed Luigi Boccardo.
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