Alberto Ferri Garavelli
Italian Comboni missionary priest who worked in Ecuador
Who they were
Born at Cologno al Serio (Bergamo), he was a Comboni missionary in the vicariate of Esmeraldas and then in Manabí, where he formed lay catechists and community leaders and built many rural churches.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
Archbishop Eduardo Castillo of Portoviejo decreed on 15 September 2025 the opening of the diocesan phase of the beatification cause of the Siervo de Dios Alberto Ferri Garavelli, celebrated on 22 October 2025, with Fr Miguel Ángel Vera as postulator.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.