Gaetano Francesco Mauro
Calabrian diocesan priest, founder of the Rural Catechists (Ardorini Missionaries)
Who they were
A priest of Cosenza and First World War military chaplain who founded the Congregation of Pious Rural Catechist Workers (the Ardorini Missionaries) at Montalto Uffugo in 1928 to evangelise neglected country districts.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The decree on his or her heroic virtues has been promulgated; a miracle would come next.
Why that counted as sanctity
The cause was opened in the archdiocese of Cosenza-Bisignano on 9 May 2002, and Pope Francis promulgated the decree on his heroic virtues on 19 January 2023.
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.
- La Iglesia cuenta con seis nuevos Venerables — Vatican News
- Il card. Leo a Montalto nel ricordo del venerabile don Gaetano Mauro — Parola di Vita (Cosenza-Bisignano diocesan weekly)
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.