Francesco Bonifacio
Italian Catholic priest (1912–1946)
Feast: 11 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
The Vatican record
- 25 November 2024 — Martyrdom recognised (decree list, 2024)
Who they were
Francesco Giovanni Bonifacio (7 September 1912 – 11 September 1946) was an Italian Catholic priest, killed by the Yugoslav communists in Grisignana (then Italy now Croatia); he was beatified in Trieste on 4 October 2008.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
The cause
Francesco Bonifacio has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Diocese of Trieste: Blessed Francesco Bonifacio.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q524388 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Francesco Bonifacio (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The dates and the step marked “Vatican record” come from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; the rest comes from Wikidata and is not yet checked.