Saint & Blessed
Five priests from the Institute have also been declared Blessed: Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi (1826-1855), martyr in Oceania, beatified in 1984; Paolo Manna (1872-1952), founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union of Clergy and Religious, proclaimed in 2000; Clemente Vismara (1897-1988), missionary in Burma (now Myanmar), beatified in 2011; Mario Vergara (1910-1950), martyred together with Isidoro Ngei Ko Lat (1918-1950) – a layman, his local catechist who had been trained by the PIME missionaries – beatified with him in 2014; Alfredo Cremonesi (1902-1953), martyr in Burma, beatified in 2019.
Three, instead, are the Venerables: Angelo Ramazzotti (1800-1861) Oblate of Rho, Founder of the Institute, Bishop of Pavia and Patriarch of Venice; Felice Tantardini (1898-1991), lay missionary, active for many years in Burma, and Carlo Salerio (1827-1870), missionary priest in Oceania and founder of the Sisters of Reparation.
Also on the way to beatification is the Servant of God Silvio Pasquali (1864-1924), missionary priest in India and founder of the Catechist Sisters of Saint Anne.
