Lucia Eleonora Schiavinato
Italian founder of the Piccolo Rifugio homes and the Volunteers of Charity
Who they were
She opened the first Piccolo Rifugio at San Donà di Piave in 1935 for abandoned children, disabled people and the elderly, founded the secular institute of the Volunteers of Charity in 1954 and opened rehabilitation centres for women leaving prostitution from 1957.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The foundation she began names her a Servant of God; her cause was opened in the diocese of Treviso in 1999.
The cause
Lucia Eleonora Schiavinato is named a Servant of God; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: The cause of Lucia Eleonora Schiavinato.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.