Blessed Claudio Granzotto -Image: Pinterest
(Franciscan Media) Born in Italy Santa Lucia di Piave in 1900, Claudio was the youngest of 9 children in a peasant farming family according to SQPN and so was accustomed to hard work in the fields. At the age of 9, Claudio’s father passed away and six years later at 15, Claudio was drafted into the Army serving three years.
Claudio loved art especially religious themed art and graduated with Honors from Italy Venice ‘Academy of Fine Arts’ in 1929 — Four yrs after graduation, Claudio entered the ‘Order of Friars Minor’ which his Parish Priest wrote of him: “The Order is receiving not only an artist but a Saint.”
Prayer, charity to the poor and artistic work characterized Claudio’s short life as he died on the day of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1947 at the age of just 46 of a brain tumor.
Claudio was Beatified in 1994 by Pope Saint John Paul II
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