Giovanni Maria Boccardo (20 November 1848 - 30 December 1913) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Poor Daughters of Saint Cajetan.
[1] Boccardo tended to victims of a cholera epidemic in 1884 and was forced to resign all positions in his parish in 1911 due to illness that confined him to his bed.
[3] Boccardo was generous to the plight of the poor as a child and adolescent and on one occasion cared for a blind beggar.
[2][3] Boccardo was named as a canon of the Church of Santa Maria della Scala in Chieri and in 1882 was made the pastor of Moncalieri - he would remain there until his death.
Boccardo was proclaimed to be Venerable on 6 April 1998 after Pope John Paul II declared that he had lived a life of heroic virtue.
The miracle in question was the 1968 cure of Lina Alvez de Oliveira from São Paulo in Brazil.