Blessed Joseph Allamano
Also known as
- Giuseppe Allamano
Profile
Fourth of five children; nephew of Saint John Cafasso. His father died when Joseph was three years old. Studied at the Salesian Oratory in Valdocco, Italy; Saint John Bosco was one of Giuseppe’s spiritual directors. He entered the diocesan seminary of Turin, Italy in November 1866. Ordained on 20 September 1873. Spiritual director of the Turin seminary. Appointed rector of the Consolata Shrine on 2 October 1880; he remodeled the shrine, and made it a source for spiritual renewal throughout the diocese. Founded the Consolata Missionary Priests and Brothers on 29 January 1901; the first missionaries reached Kenya in 1902. On 29 January 1910 he founded the Consolata Missionary Sisters for women with a missionary vocation.
Born
- 21 January 1851 at Castelnuova, Asti, Italy
- 16 February 1926 at Turin, Italy of natural causes
- interred at the mother house of the Consolata Missionaries in Turin
- on 23 May 2024, Pope Francis issued a decree of a miracle received through the intercession of Blessed Joseph
- the canonization miracle involved the 1996 healing of a man named Sorino Yanomami in the diocese of Roraima, Brazil, from the effects of a severe mauling by an jaguar
- on 23 May 2024 Pope Francis announced a consistory to decide on the canonization of Blessed Giuseppe
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Joseph Allamano“. CatholicSaints.Info. 25 May 2024. Web. 28 May 2024. <>