Carlo Amirante
Neapolitan priest and Secular Servite known for relief work
Who they were
An army officer who became a priest of Naples, he worked in the rescue after the 1883 Casamicciola earthquake and during the 1884 cholera epidemic, and joined the Secular Servites. Santi e Beati gives his birth date as 3 November 1852, against the 3 September recorded by the Hagiography Circle.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
His cause was opened in Naples on 20 December 1954.
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.