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Secondo Pollo
Italian presbyter
Feast: 26 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Secondo Pollo was born at Caresanablot, near Vercelli, on 2 January 1908. A priest of Vercelli, he taught and guided seminarians, preached and heard confessions, and worked with the young of Catholic Action.
He followed them into the Second World War as chaplain to the Alpini. He was gravely wounded while helping a dying soldier and soon afterwards died.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
An army chaplain killed while helping a dying soldier.
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 - biography: Secondo Pollo
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 23 May 1998
- Wikidata Q3954029 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Secondo Pollo (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.