Mariano Arciero
Italian Roman Catholic priest
Feast: 16 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Mariano Arciero was born at Contursi on 26 February 1707 to hard-working, devout peasants and helped tend the flock as a child. At eight he went into service with a young nobleman, Emanuele Parisio, who, becoming a priest, took him to Naples as his page.
Ordained, he threw himself into the apostolate with ardent zeal; after twenty years he returned to Naples and continued his work, famed for wisdom and virtue. He died, as he had foretold, at four in the afternoon of 16 February 1788, aged 81.
The miracles
Contursi — 1951
A healing presented to the Congregation for his beatification.
Why that counted as sanctity
A shepherd boy and servant who became a tireless apostle of the Gospel.
The cause
Mariano Arciero 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 Mariano Arciero: the official site.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Mariano Arciero
- Wikidata Q129098 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Mariano Arciero (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.