Luigi Carrara
Xaverian missionary priest, martyr in the Congo
Who they were
Luigi Carrara was born at Cornale di Pradalunga, near Bergamo in Italy, on 3 March 1933, entered the Xaverian Missionaries in 1947, made temporary profession on 12 September 1954 and perpetual profession on 5 November 1959. Ordained priest on 15 October 1961, he was sent the following year to Baraka in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he was killed on 28 November 1964; Pope Francis beatified him on 18 August 2024.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
He was killed at Baraka, the mission to which he had been sent two years after his ordination.
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.
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis 116 (2024), p. 1181 - decree on martyrdom
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 18 August 2024
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.