32 Facts About Giacinto Longhin

Giacinto Bonaventura Longhin - in religious Andrea di Campodarsego - was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin who served as the Bishop of Treviso from 1904 until his death.

Giacinto Longhin became close friends with Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, Cardinal Patriarch of Venice.

Giacinto Longhin likewise undertook three separate pastoral visits because he wanted to meet all his parishioners in each parish encompassing the diocese.

Giacinto Longhin was active in organizing and collaborating in relief initiatives during World War I and was even awarded the Cross of Merit for his activism.

Giacinto Longhin's death prompted widespread calls for the beatification cause to be initialized.

Giacinto Bonaventura Longhin was born on 22 November 1863 in Padua as the sole child to the poor farmers Matteo Longhin and Giudetta Marin.

Giacinto Longhin's father worked alone on the farm and did not wish to be deprived of his son in such arduous work.

Giacinto Longhin assumed the religious name "Andrea di Campodarsego" on 27 August 1879 after vesting in the habit in Bassano del Grappa in Vicenza.

Giacinto Longhin studied in both Padua and Venice and made his solemn religious profession on 4 October 1883.

Giacinto Longhin was ordained to the priesthood in Venice on 19 June 1886.

Giacinto Longhin taught at an institute that his order managed in Udine and was the director for the order's teachers and then made the director of theological studies in Venice.

Giacinto Longhin served as the Provincial Minister for his order in Venice from 18 April 1902 onwards where he came to the attention of Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, Cardinal Patriarch of Venice who would become Pope Pius X in 1903.

Sarto often had Giacinto Longhin preach in Venice to the masses and the two became close friends during this period; it pleased Giacinto Longhin that his friend Sarto had been elected as pope.

Giacinto Longhin travelled often to each parish in order to become close with his people while he set about reforming the seminaries to improve spiritual formation while seeking to encourage vocations.

Giacinto Longhin promoted retreats for spiritual renewal and encouraged the diocesan priests to support the idea.

Giacinto Longhin became a close friend to Leopold Mandic during his episcopate.

Giacinto Longhin held two more pastoral visits in 1912 and in 1926.

Giacinto Longhin restored parishes that had been ruined and was even awarded the Cross of Merit for his good deeds.

Giacinto Longhin was released not long after and continued the relief efforts.

Giacinto Longhin was made the apostolic administrator for the vacant Udine see until the pope could appoint a new prelate to head that see.

Giacinto Longhin continued to hold his post in Treviso and remained there until his death.

In 1929 the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice Pietro La Fontaine wrote that Giacinto Longhin exemplified "the Good Shepherd in the Gospel" who remained "true to the original".

Giacinto Longhin supported the rights of workers and railed against worker exploitation as a sinful act.

Giacinto Longhin encouraged religious orders to operate within his diocese and welcomed orders such as the Carmelites and the Salesians of Don Bosco as well as others such as the Passionists.

Giacinto Longhin later presided over two catechetical congresses in his diocese in 1922 and 1932.

Giacinto Longhin had been in Salzano at the end of a pastoral visitation for a Confirmation Mass on 3 October 1935 when he lost his sight.

Giacinto Longhin was hospitalized at once in Treviso and was found to have had deficient cerebral circulation which had resulted in the loss of his sight.

Giacinto Longhin celebrated his last Mass on 14 February 1936.

Giacinto Longhin died on 26 June 1936 after eighteen hours of agonizing pain.

Giacinto Longhin's funeral was held on 30 June with a large crowd amassing to farewell him; Longhin's remains were interred in the Treviso Cathedral later on 5 November 1936.

Giacinto Longhin's beatification depended upon a miracle that science or medicine failed to explain.

The miracle that led to Giacinto Longhin's beatification was the 1964 cure of Dino Stella from diffuse peritonitis.