Giuseppe Picco
Italian Jesuit priest who preached retreats to workers
Who they were
A Jesuit ordained in 1901, he spent more than thirty years giving retreats and spiritual exercises to workers and poor people around Gozzano in the Novara hills.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The decree on heroic virtues has been promulgated; a miracle would come next.
Why that counted as sanctity
His cause was opened in 1955 and the decree on his heroic virtues was promulgated on 18 December 1997.
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.