Pietro Bonilli
Italian presbyter (1841–1935)
Feast: 24 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Pietro Bonilli was born at San Lorenzo di Trevi on 15 March 1841, to a poor family. Ordained in 1863, he was parish priest of Cannaiola di Trevi for 34 years.
There, on 13 May 1888, he founded the Sisters of the Holy Family of Spoleto, to care for the poor, orphans, the deaf and dumb, the blind and the abandoned.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A country priest who founded sisters to care for orphans and the blind.
The cause
Pietro Bonilli has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia: Blessed Pietro Bonilli.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Pietro Bonilli
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 24 April 1988
- Wikidata Q2755906 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Pietro Bonilli (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.