Giuseppe Girotti

Giuseppe Girotti was born on 19 July 1905 in Alba in the Province of Cuneo as the eldest of three children to Celso Girotti (born 1875) and Martina Proetto; his siblings that followed him were Giovanni and Michele. Girotti was baptized on 30 July. He began his studies in October 1911 and from 1911 to 1913 was under the ward of the teacher Ferrio. from the Bishop of Vigevano Giacinto Scapardini and he – after ordination – studied Sacred Scripture at the Angelicum in Rome and at the École Biblique in Jerusalem under the guidance of the Marie-Joseph Lagrange. Yad Vashem recognition On 14 February 1995, the Yad Vashem organization declared Giuseppe Girotti to be Righteous Among the Nations. A tree was planted in his honor in Jerusalem along the Avenue of the Righteous. ==Beatification==

The route to beatification process began with the diocesan process opened by Cardinal Anastasio Ballestrero in Turin on 20 March 1988 and closed under Archbishop Giovanni Saldarini on 20 January 1990. The formal introduction to the Roman phase of the cause came under Pope John Paul II on 13 January 1989 and Giuseppe Girotti was given the title Servant of God. A panel of theologians asserted on 20 January 2012 their belief that Girotti was killed for his faith, while the Congregation came to the same conclusion on 5 February 2013; Pope Francis confirmed on 27 March 2013 that Girotti was killed "in odium fidei" ("in hatred of the faith") and thus opened the way to his beatification. On the pope's behalf Cardinal Severino Poletto, Archbishop of Turin, presided over the beatification at a solemn Mass in Alba Cathedral on 26 April 2014. The current postulator for this cause is the Dominican priest Vito Tomás Gómez García. ==See also==