Padre Raffaele of Sant'Elia a Pianisi
italian, Servant of God
The Vatican record
- 6 April 2019 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2019)
Who they were
Raffaele of Sant'Elia a Pianisi (14 December 1816 – 6 January 1901), baptized as Domenico Petrucelli, commonly known as "Padre Raffaele", was an Italian Priest and a friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
The Church has declared this person’s heroic virtue, which is what the title Venerable means. One approved miracle is needed before beatification.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q18915615 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Raffaele of Sant'Elia a Pianisi (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The dates and the step marked “Vatican record” come from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; the rest comes from Wikidata and is not yet checked.