Antonio Pavoni
Italian priest
Feast: 9 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Bricherasio near Pinerolo in Piedmont, Blessed Antonio Pavoni, priest of the Order of Preachers and martyr, who, as he was leaving the church where he had just preached against heresies, was ferociously slaughtered.
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 9 April as a Dominican priest and martyr killed as he left church after preaching against heresies.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Connected on this site
- Urban V Blessed“He served as an inquisitor-general for Pope Urban V in combatting Waldensians in the Lombard region, but the Waldensians succeeded in killing him in an ambush as he preached an Eastertide homily in 1374.” — Wikipedia
- Roman Martyrology, 9 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3620020 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Antonio Pavoni (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.