Rosario Livatino
Italian judge (1952–1990)
Feast: 21 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
The Vatican record
- 21 December 2020 — Martyrdom recognised (decree list, 2020)
Who they were
Rosario Angelo Livatino (Italian pronunciation: [roˈzaːrjo livaˈtiːno]; 3 October 1952 – 21 September 1990) was an Italian magistrate who was murdered by the Stidda, a Sicilian Mafia-type criminal organization, and Beatified by the Catholic Church.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
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 Q1059936 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Rosario Livatino (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.