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Francesco Bonifacio
Italian Catholic priest (1912–1946)
BlessedAustria–Hungary
Feast: 11 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1912
sources disagree
Died
1946
sources disagree
Beatified
4 October 2008
unverified
Canonised
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not yet
The Vatican record
- 25 November 2024 — Martyrdom recognised (decree list, 2024)
Who they were
Francesco Giovanni Bonifacio (7 September 1912 – 11 September 1946) was an Italian Catholic priest, killed by the Yugoslav communists in Grisignana (then Italy now Croatia); he was beatified in Trieste on 4 October 2008.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information available on this saint.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information available on this saint.
Sources
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q524388 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Francesco Bonifacio (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The dates and the step marked “Vatican record” come from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; the rest comes from Wikidata and is not yet checked.