Pietro Casani

Who they were

At Rome, Blessed Pietro of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Casani, priest of the Order of Clerics Regular of the Pious Schools, who placed his gifts of nature and grace at the service of the education of children, happy only to serve God in the little ones.

The miracles

The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 17 October as a Piarist priest who gave his gifts to the education of children.

Connected on this site

• Giovanni Leonardi Saint
  “Casani had assumed the religious name of "Pietro della Natività di Maria" upon his solemn profession and had once been part of the Congregazione della Beata Vergine Maria that Giovanni Leonardi founded.” — Wikipedia