Silvio Pasquali
Italian PIME missionary in India who founded the Catechist Sisters of St Ann
Who they were
Pasquali was a priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions who worked among the villages around Eluru in Andhra Pradesh and founded the Catechist Sisters of St Ann. It gives his death as 7 July 1924; the Hagiography Circle gives 17 December 1924, and the Catholic source has been followed.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The congregation's own site calls him Servant of God and says the beatification process was begun through the diocese of Eluru after his writings were traced in the PIME archives in 2013.
The cause
Silvio Pasquali 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 Silvio Pasquali.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.