Lodovico Coccapani

Ludovico Coccapani (23 June 1849 – 14 November 1931) was an Italian Roman Catholic teacher and professed member from the Secular Franciscan Order. He also served the President of the Conference of Saint Vincent de Paul in its Pisan division. He was a noted figure in Pisa due to his charitable activities; he was close with important figures of that era in Pisa including Cardinal Pietro Maffi and Giuseppe Toniolo who both had an interest in education.

His cause for beatification commenced in 1949 in a long and complex process that halted in 1966. It reopened several decades later and continued in Pisa after the resolution of the reasons for the initial stop. The commencement of the cause saw him titled as a Servant of God. Pope Francis titled him as Venerable on 7 November 2018 upon confirmation of his heroic virtue.

His parents died when he was a child, with one having died when he was eight in 1857; he therefore lived with his brother and sisters of which he was the lastborn. he became the president of the Pisan detail of the Vicentian Conference and carried out the duties of the organization during World War I; it was during that conflict that he took care of war orphans. On 7 November 2018 Pope Francis confirmed Coccapani exercised heroic virtue and so titled him as venerable. The postulator of the cause current one is Damian-Gheorghe Pătraşcu OFMConv.

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