Gioachino Maria Rossetto (Giuseppe Rossetto)
Servite friar who founded the Secular Institute of St Raphael the Archangel
Who they were
Born at Falgare di Poleo near Schio, he entered the Servites at seventeen and was ordained at Vicenza in 1903, serving mainly at Monte Berico and at Follina during the First World War, and was a missionary in Swaziland; he founded the women's Secular Institute of San Raffaele and the Priestly Union of San Raffaele.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The diocese of Vicenza records that his beatification process has been under way since 1995; the diocesan inquiry opened on 15 September 1995 after the nihil obstat of 21 April that year.
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.