Michele Pio Fasoli
Italian presbyter
Feast: 3 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Michele Pio Fasoli da Zerbo (1670-1716) was a Franciscan priest and missionary.
He was stoned to death for the Catholic faith in Ethiopia in 1716, with his fellow Franciscan Samuele Marzorati.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A Franciscan missionary stoned to death in Ethiopia.
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
- Liberat Weiß Blessed“Johannes Laurentius Weiss (religious name Liberat) and his two companions Michele Pio Fasoli and Antonio Francesco Marzorati (religious name Samuele) were German and Italian priests of the Order of Friars Minor.” — Wikipedia
- Samuele Marzorati Blessed“He was stoned to death for the Catholic faith in Ethiopia in 1716, with his fellow Franciscan Samuele Marzorati.” — this site's research
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Michele Pio Fasoli
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 20 November 1988
- Wikidata Q11779117 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.