Attilio Giordani
Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil |
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Attilio Giordani
The process for Giordani's beatification launched in Milan (rather than Brazil where he died as would be the custom) in 1994 and he became titled as a
Life
Attilio Giordani was born in
railroad worker who each winter morning would go to bring a basket of coal to two poor old men before going to work. His mother was a housewife who suffered from frequent bouts of illness.[3] He had two siblings: sister Angela (who became a professed religious in the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco
) and brother Camillo (b. 3.4.1923).
From 1922 he started to attend
ordination to the priesthood (which he received from the Cardinal Archbishop of Milan Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster) on 25 March 1950 in Milan.[5]
He also served as a
evangelizing.[4]
Giordani also helped start the Crusade of Kindness movement in the 1950s which received the blessing of the Cardinal Archbishop of Milan Giovanni Battista Montini (the future
Genova port (leaving on 21 June 1972) on board the ship "Giulio Cesare" in Poxoreu. He had some knowledge of the Portuguese language but did not become fluent in it.[3]
His daughters Maria Grazia and Paola returned to their homeland in October 1972 for work reasons.
He died from a heart attack on 18 December 1972 in
Campo Grande. He had been speaking to a crowd of people before he felt weak and suffered a fatal heart attack. He reclined his head on the shoulder of Ugo De Censi before turning to his son Pier Giorgio and managed to whisper to him to continue in his stead.[1][4] His remains were returned home on 23 December and buried in a grave at Vendrogno but moved later to the Basilica di Sant'Agostino in Milan (his old parish and the church the Salesians managed).[6]
Beatification process
The beatification process launched in the Milan archdiocese in a diocesan process that Cardinal
Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued the official "nihil obstat" (no objections) edict and titled Giordani as a Servant of God on 22 November 1994. The C.C.S. later took charge of the investigation and issued a decree validating the diocesan investigation on 20 March 1997 and receiving the Positio dossier
for evaluation in 2001.
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Venerable on 9 October 2013 after Pope Francis signed a decree that acknowledged that Giordani had lived a life practicing heroic virtue.[1][3]
The current postulator for this cause is the Salesian priest Pierluigi Cameroni.
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Venerable Attilio Giordani". Saints SQPN. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Attilio Giordani". ADMA. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Venerabile Attilio Giordani". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Venerable Attilio Giordani – (1913-1972)". Salesians of Don Bosco. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ a b c "Attilio Giordani". Exallievi ed Exallieve di Don Bosco. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ "Venerable Attilio Giordani", Salesian Sisters of Saint John Bosco
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