Pietro Bonilli

Pietro Bonilli (15 March 1841 - 5 January 1935) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Spoleto. Bonilli served as a diocesan priest for his entire life in both Trevi and Spoleto while using a religious order he created to reach out to orphans and homeless people.

Pope John Paul II beatified Bonilli on 24 April 1988.

Life Pietro Bonilli was born in Trevi (in the district of S. Lorenzo) on 15 March 1841 to the farmers Sebastiano Bonilli and Maria Allegri. Theologians approved all of his writings on 26 July 1953 as being in line with the tradition of the faith and not in contradiction to it.

The title of Servant of God was bestowed upon Bonilli after the cause opened on 1 July 1964 under Pope Paul VI. An apostolic process was initiated not long after and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints validated the previous processes in Rome on 16 January 1970.

The Positio was submitted to the C.C.S. in 1984 which resulted in Pope John Paul II proclaiming Bonilli to be Venerable on 30 June 1986 upon the recognition of his life of heroic virtue.

The miracle needed for beatification was investigated in a diocesan process in the place in which it occurred (Cupramontana in the Marche) and received the validation of the C.C.S. on 21 June 1985. The medical board assented to the healing as being a miracle on 5 November 1986 and theologians did the same on 13 March 1987; the C.C.S. followed suit on 2 June 1987. The pope granted final approval to it a month later and beatified Bonilli on 24 April 1988.

The current postulator assigned to the cause is Giovangiuseppe Califano.