Claudio Granzotto
Italian sculptor, Franciscan friar and Blessed
Feast: 2 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Padua, Blessed Claudio (Riccardo) Granzotto, religious of the Order of Friars Minor, who united the practice of religious life with his craft as a sculptor and in a few years attained perfection in the imitation of Christ.
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 15 August as a Franciscan religious and sculptor who joined religious life with his craft.
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, 15 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q11739869 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Claudio Granzotto (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.