Giuseppe Baldo
Italian presbyter (1843–1915)
Feast: 24 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
The Vatican record
- 21 December 2018 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2018)
Who they were
Giuseppe Baldo was born at Puegnago, on Lake Garda, on 19 February 1843, and ordained in 1865. In 1877 he became parish priest of Ronco all'Adige, where he faced the threats of a group of Freemasons.
He founded a free nursery school, a work school, a mutual-aid society to protect the poor from usurers, a small hospital, a home for the old and a Catholic rural bank, and in 1894 the Little Daughters of St Joseph. He died at Ronco on 24 October 1915.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A parish priest who built schools, a hospital and a bank for his poor people.
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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Giuseppe Baldo
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 31 October 1989
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q3770048 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Giuseppe Baldo (priest) (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.