MoVanza Cause of Beatification of Salesian Tetrapléjico Antonino Baglieri, who led Jesus to the sick

The Salesians received the news that the dicas supplies of the causes of the saints validated the diocesan investigation for the cause of beatification of the servant of God Antonino Baglieri, a lay tetraplapic who, in the midst of suffering, decided to take Jesus to other patients.

The Vatican Communication, signed by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the aforementioned Dicastery, was received on January 21 by the general postulator for the causes of the Saints of the Salesian family, Fr. Pierluigi Cameroni, as confirmed ANSthe communication body of the Salesian congregation.

According to the publication, this was achieved after verifying the formality of the procedural acts and the solidity of the evidence, including the quantity and quality of the witnesses and the documents that were collected. The diocesan investigation was carried out in the Curia of the Diocese of Noto between March 2, 2014 and May 5, 2024.

Fr. Cameroni said that this progress in the cause of beatification “is a great achievement, the result of the work done by the members of the Diocesan Court and by whom they have contributed, in particular by the Historical Commission and the vicepostulator.”

Now, the next step, it will be that the postulator requests from the Dicasteria of the causes of the saints that a rapporteur names that will guide the preparation of the Position on the virtues (position on virtues).

Antonino Baglieri (1951-2007)

Antonino “Nino” Baglieri was born on May 1, 1951 in Modica, Italy. At age 17, while working as a mason’s apprentice, he suffered a fall from a scaffold of 17 meters, being completely paralyzed.

According to the official Salesian sitehis mother, Giuseppina, putting all his confidence in God, decided to dedicate the rest of his life to the care of his disabled son. Thus began the difficult way of Nino, moving from one hospital to another without finding improvement. Upon returning to his town in 1970, after a few days of friends of friends, he faced a decade of isolation, pain and hopelessness, without leaving his home.

The afternoon of March 24, 1978, Good Friday, a group of the Catholic charismatic renewal prayed for Nino, and at that moment he felt a deep change inside. From then on, he accepted with faith the cross that had had to load and began to form spiritually by reading the Bible, especially the Gospels.

During that time, while helping some children with their homework, he learned to write with his mouth. Thus began his evangelization mission, capturing his memoirs and sending letters to people around the world. He also wrote personalized prints for those who visited him and scored phone numbers to keep in touch with the sick, to whom serenity, comfort and hope with his words transmitted, narrates the Salesian congregation.

As of May 6, 1982, Nino began commemorating the anniversary of the cross that had had to take him and, that same year, he joined the Salesian family as Salesian Cooperator. On August 31, 2004 he made his perpetual profession with volunteers with Don Bosco (CDB).

On March 2, 2007, at 8:00 am, after years of illness, he left for the father’s house. Following his desire, he was dressed in sportswear and shoes, thus expressing his desire to “run to the meeting of God on his last trip.”