Luigi Boccardo
Italian presbyter
Feast: 9 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Luigi Boccardo was born at Moncalieri on 9 August 1861. His eldest brother, Blessed Giovanni Maria Boccardo, was his godfather and paid for his studies at the seminary of Turin.
He founded the Sisters of Jesus the King, a contemplative branch of blind sisters within the Poor Daughters of St Cajetan, the congregation his brother had founded.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A priest who opened the contemplative life to blind women.
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.
Connected on this site
- Giovanni Maria Boccardo Blessed“He was the elder brother of Blessed Luigi Boccardo.” — Wikipedia
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Luigi Boccardo
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 14 April 2007
- Wikidata Q5982929 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Luigi Boccardo (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.