Umile da Genova
The Vatican record
- 5 August 2022 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2022)
Who they were
Giovanni Giuseppe Bonzi, in religion Umile da Genova, was a professed priest of the Capuchin Friars Minor and founder of the Opera Sorriso Francescano and of the Congregation of the Little Handmaids of the Child Jesus; he was born in Genoa, Italy, on 21 April 1898 and died there on 9 February 1969. Pope Francis recognised his heroic virtue on 5 August 2022.
The miracles
The Church has not yet approved a miracle in this cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Church recognised his heroic virtue in 2022.
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 - decrees published in 2022
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Not yet in Wikidata. Name as the Vatican spells it.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.