Frei Damião
The Vatican record
- 6 April 2019 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2019)
Who they were
Damião de Bozzano OFMCap, born as Pio Giannotti (5 November 1898 – 31 May 1997), was an Italian religious priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin who served as a missionary in Brazil for over six decades. Giannotti entered the order when he was twelve to do his ecclesial studies and religious formation of which he spent some of that time in Rome. He worked as a teacher from 1928 until 1931 when he was sent to the missions in Brazil. He would remain there for the rest of his life and would go travelling often to northern Brazilian cities where he would celebrate Mass and evangelize while hearing confessions on a frequent basis.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
The Church has declared this person’s heroic virtue, which is what the title Venerable means. One approved miracle is needed before beatification.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information available on this saint.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q7053546 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Damião de Bozzano (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.