Damião de Bozzano

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Venerable

Damião de Bozzano

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BornPio Giannotti
(1898-11-05)5 November 1898
Bozzano, Massarosa, Lucca, Kingdom of Italy
Died31 May 1997(1997-05-31) (aged 98)
Royal Portuguese Hospital, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Resting placeConvent St. Félix Cantalice, Pina, Recife, Brazil

Damião de Bozzano

evangelize while hearing confessions on a frequent basis.[1][2]

Towards the end of his life he was hospitalized on nineteen separate occasions due to a series of health issues he began facing.

spinal deformation that left him stooped and suffered from speech and breathing difficulties. His health declined into his nineties and he died from a stroke while recovering in hospital for breathing difficulties.[1][2]

The beatification process for the late friar had been called for after he died since the people in

Venerable.[1][3]

Life

The memorial in his honor in Guarabira that was inaugurated in 2004.

Pio Giannotti was born in Bozzano on 5 November 1898 as the second of five children born to the pious

confirmation on 15 June 1908 from Cardinal Benedetto Lorenzelli in the Lucca Cathedral.[3]

His

ordination to the priesthood in the Chiesa di San Lorenzo da Brindisi on 25 August 1923 from Cardinal Basilio Pompili.[2][3][a]

Giannotti served as a

evangelization the focus of his mission. He also delivered food and other provisions to the poor and to the sick. Giannotti was also a doctrinal conservative who was sometimes at odds with left-wing priests who supported liberation theology.[4]

His health took a sharp decline into his nineties. It became more and more common during that time for people to see him for guidance rather than having him go out to see them.

blood circulation and in 1990 suffered a pulmonary embolism that handicapped his walking.[2]
He was hospitalized on nineteen separate occasions as he grew older due to a series of health complications.

Giannotti died on 31 May 1997 from a

recovery ward.[3] The President Fernando Henrique Cardoso proclaimed a three-day period of mourning for Giannotti's death. His remains were embalmed and lay in state for three days in the Basilica Nossa Senhora de Penha.[2] The Archbishop of Olinda e Recife José Cardoso Sobrinho presided over his funeral Mass was conducted in the Estádio do Arruda in Recife with twelve bishops and 138 priests present for the funeral; his coffin had to be helicoptered to the burial site as people clogged the streets, making ground travel impossible. His remains were interred in the Nostra Signora delle Grazie chapel in Pina near Recife.[1] Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns praised Giannotti after the friar's death and called him one of the greatest missionaries in Brazilian history; the cardinal said that he had delivered "firm teaching" that exhorted others to observe "good moral conduct".[3]
In 2004 came the inauguration of a memorial erected in his honor in Guarabira in Paraíba that had been in construction since 2000.

Beatification process

Statue in Araripe in Ceará.

The beatification process opened on 6 July 2002 after the

Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued the official "nihil obstat" (no objections to the cause) edict and titled him as a Servant of God; the issuing of the edict was a declaration that no obstacles existed that would otherwise impede the cause's activation. The Olinda e Recife archdiocese launched the official diocesan investigation into Giannotti's life and reputation for holiness on 31 May 2003 and closed it a decade later on 24 May 2012; a smaller investigation was opened in the Lucca archdiocese in 2006 for additional evidence to be collected.[5]
The C.C.S. received the boxes of documentation collected during that timeframe and validated the diocesan process on 25 October 2013 as having complied with the congregation's official regulations for conducting diocesan investigations.

The postulation (the officials in charge of the cause) submitted the official Positio dossier to the C.C.S. in Rome on 15 September 2015 for assessment and it was a dossier that drew upon the documents and interrogatories collected during the diocesan investigation.[5] It also was meant to present the case for Giannotti's holiness and the manner in which this was perceived during his life. Theologians issued a unanimous agreement to the cause on 6 February 2018 as did the cardinal and bishop members of the C.C.S. on 26 March 2019.[6][7]

Giannotti became titled as

Venerable on 6 April 2019 after Pope Francis signed a decree acknowledging his life of heroic virtue
.

The current postulator for this cause is the Capuchin friar Carlo Calloni.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Venerable Pio Giannotti". Saints SQPN. 10 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Frei Damião". eBiografia. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Venerabile Damiano da Bozzano (Pio Giannotti)". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "Frei Damião". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  5. ^ a b c "Damiano da Bozzano, 1898-1997 (N. Prot. 2475)". Ordo Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Comissão romana emitirá parecer sobre a causa de Beatificação do frei Damião de Bozzano em 06 de fevereiro". CNBB Nordeste 2. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  7. ^ "Em Roma, Bispos e Cardeais dão parecer favorável à causa de Frei Damião". Camocim News. 27 March 2019. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2019.

Notes

  1. ^ Other sources suggest that Giannotti was ordained on 5 July 1923 rather than on 25 August 1923 which most sources affirm. All sources, however, refer to Giannotti's ordination as having been held in Rome.
  2. ^ Some sources suggest he served as novice master while some Italian sources refer to Giannotti as having served as the vice-master of novices.

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