Giuseppe Carraro

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Giuseppe Carraro (26 June 1899 – 30 December 1980) was an

Carraro has been implicated in the sexual abuse scandal perpetrated against deaf-mute students of the Provolo Institute.[3] There have been a string of allegations against the late Carraro himself that prompted the cause for his beatification to be suspended around 2010 pending the results of the investigation. The cause resumed in 2012 after an investigation cleared Carraro of all charges despite discrepancies remaining over the late bishop's actions.^[2]

He was considered a man of holiness and this allowed for his cause of beatification to be introduced in 2005 at which stage he was referred to as a

Giuseppe Carraro was born in Mira on 26 June 1899 to Sebastiano Carraro (7 July 1854 – 9 January 1956) and Clotilde Pizzati (19 September 1866 – 4 November 1948) and was baptized with the name Giovanni Giuseppe Moisè. His parents often called him "Beppino". His siblings were:

• Emilio (21 September 1898 – 5 January 1966)
• Margherita (1901–???)
• Attilio (1910–1974)
• Sergio (???–1958)
• Lisetta

In 1910 Father Eugenio Dorigon suggested to his parents that he commence his studies for the

Carraro died on 30 December 1980 and was buried in the diocesan cathedral. He had spent his retirement on the hill of San Fidenzio. Cardinal Marco Cé - the Patriarch of Venice - celebrated his funeral and said: "We have lost a brother; full of spiritual wisdom and pastoral experience but we have been given an intercessor in heaven".^[2]

Beatification process

The introduction of the cause for sainthood took place on a local level on 30 December 2005 even though the

Carraro has been implicated in sexual abuse allegations made when it was revealed that there was widespread abuse of deaf-mute children from the Provolo Institute.[3] Gianni Bisoli (b. 1949) accused Carraro of having molested him on five separate occasions while he was at the institute from ages nine to fifteen. Bisoli accused Carraro of having once attempted to sodomize him with a banana. But a diocesan probe cleared Carraro of all allegations despite never having interviewed alleged victims and limiting testimonies to a select few people.

Bishop Giuseppe Zenti - the Bishop of Verona - accused those former students of fabricating their claims to a left-leaning paper while referring to the accusations as nothing more than "lies" and a cheap stunt.^[3]

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