VENERABLE

SERVANT
OF GOD
FATHER

CARLO
DON CARLO CAVINA
Name: Carlo Giuseppe Cavina
(3rd son)

Parents: Mother : Luisa Minardi

Father: Salvatore Cavina

Birthdate: August 29, 1820

Birthplace: Castel Bolognese, Italy

Baptized: Church of St. Petronio,

a day after birth
Confirmed: 8 years old

First Communion : 11 years old

1836 : received the clerical habit

1837: received the holy tonsure
Sept.18,1841:ordained sub-deacon
1842: diaconate
June 10, 1843:
-ordination to priesthood at
San Casiano (cathedral of Imola)
- from Cardinal Mastai Ferretti
(future Pope Pius IX)
March 12, 1848 : received his first
assignment as a parish priest in
Montecatone

May 15, 1850: he was entrusted

as the new provost of the
Collegiate Church of Lugo
(at 30 y.o)
- officially installed on
August 6, 1850

August 23, 1872 : founded the

congregation of the
Daughters of St. Francis de Sales

Died: September 15, 1880 (60 y.o.)

October 16, 1994 : trial of the beatification of
the Servant of God Don Carlo Cavina
opened in Lugo, Italy.

April 7, 2019: was proclaimed as Venerable

 He was good, docile, reflective, eager to learn
and constantly applying what he learned.

He possessed a prompt intelligence and a good

Memory.

Since childhood, he showed a keen interest in

Knowing God.

Was very attentive whenever his mother narrated

Bible stories.
 He learned by heart the Catholic Catechism and
Latin prayers and would teach his younger brothers
and sisters.

When he finished his elementary education, he

told his mother his desire to be a priest.

His father wanted him to be a lawyer but could

not do anything but to agree. “If God wants my
son for Himself, let His name be praised. We will
do everything possible for our son.”
 He started his studies to become a priest outside
the seminary for 3 reasons:

1. He could not afford the seminary expenses

2. poor health

3. good private schools were staffed by priests

After he received his
clerical habit in 1836, he
was forced to stop because
of a strange sickness.
During this period, he tried
to deepen his knowledge
in moral theology which
helped him a lot as a
priest.
Cardinal Mastai Ferretti has so
much trust and
confidence in him that soon
after his ordination, he
appointed him as the assistant
rector of the seminary
of Imola. He, who was never a
student of a seminary,
was given the first mission as a
priest inside the
seminary. A delicate and tough
task yet he carried
it with admirable zeal.
 His diligence and wisdom
won the heart of these
Theologians who were
almost near ordination. He
maintained discipline in the
seminary by being a
good model and assistant
rector from 1843 to 1848.
 It was during this period
that Don Carlo came to
know and love the great saint
of meekness and
gentleness: St. Francis de
Sales. It was the spirituality
of St. Francis de Sales that
characterized his ministry
as a parish priest, as a gentle
director and as a founder
of the Daughter of St. Francis
de Sales.
 Don Carlo Cavina was an
accomplished organizer
and promoter of associations:
 he started the first youth
group of the Catholic
Action in the Diocese
 organized the conferences
of St. Vincent de Paul and
the Daughters of Mary
in 1850.
founded the charitable work
of the missions in
Lugo
 was an active promoter
of the missions
 introduced in his parish
the Apostleship of Prayer
from which sprang the
charism of the Daughters
of St. Francis de Sales
congregation.
 he organized for mothers and
Christian women the association
“Patronage of our Lady of the
Sacred Heart.”
 he was greatly devoted to the
Blessed Virgin Mary. He built an
altar for the Immaculate
Conception at collegiate.
 he opened a school of the Holy
Trinity for boys and girls and
working adults
 became a founder of the
religious congregation, the
Daughters of St. Francis de
Sales.
 His years of service
were marked by
difficulties
brought by many
social problems,
insults, threats
and persecutions but
he sacrificed
everything with
love and joy for
Christ.
 He offered his entire
life to serve the people
and to fulfill his duty as
a pastor of souls until
his death on September
15, 1880 at the age of
sixty. He was an
exemplar parish priest.
 His remains
rest in the
chapel of the
mother house
of the
Daughters of
Saint Francis de
Sales in Lugo,
Ravenna Italy.
Dio
Sia
Benedetto!

Sempre!