Placido Riccardi
Italian monk (1844–1915)
Feast: 15 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Rome at Saint Paul's on the Via Ostiense, Blessed Placido Riccardi, priest of the Order of Saint Benedict, who, though suffering from continual fevers, illnesses and paralysis, cultivated with tireless dedication the observance of the rule and prayer, also teaching others to practise them.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 25 March as a Benedictine priest who, though ill, kept the rule and prayer with tireless dedication and taught others to do so.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 25 March (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2097903 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Tommaso Riccardi (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.