Giuseppe Toniolo
Italian beatified (1845–1918)
Feast: 7 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
The Vatican record
- 16 June 2017 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2017)
Who they were
Giuseppe Toniolo was born at Treviso on 7 March 1845, graduated in law at Padua in 1867 and became an assistant professor there the next year. On 4 September 1878 he married Maria Schiatti, and they had seven children.
A husband and father, university professor, educator of the young, economist and sociologist, he was a passionate servant of communion in the Church.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A layman who served the Church through family, scholarship and the formation of the young.
The cause
Giuseppe Toniolo has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: The cause of Giuseppe Toniolo: the official site.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Giuseppe Toniolo
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q1528676 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Giuseppe Toniolo (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.