Bonaventure Tornielli
Italian Roman Catholic religious and blessed
Feast: 31 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Udine, Blessed Bonaventure of Forlì, priest of the Order of Servants of Mary, who in various regions of Italy exhorted the people to penance by his preaching and died in his eighties while engaged in preaching a Lenten course.
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 31 March as a Servite priest who preached penance across Italy and died in his eighties while preaching a Lenten course.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 31 March (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q26997825 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Bonaventura Tornielli (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.