Giovanni Schiavo, CSI (8 July 1903 – 27 January 1967) was an Italian Catholic priest in the Congregation of Saint Joseph, also known as the Murialdines.

[1] Schiavo entered the Murialdines during World War I in 1917 when Eugenio Reffo allowed him and he was later ordained to the priesthood in Vicenza in 1927 a decade later.

His superiors allowed him to join the missions – to spread the charism of the Murialdines – in Brazil, where he served from 1931 until his death several decades after.

[3] This allowed for Schiavo to be beatified with the celebration held in Caxias do Sul with Cardinal Angelo Amato presiding on 28 October 2017.

Schiavo's strong call towards the religious life led him to decide to become a priest and to that effect commenced his studies that would lead him down that path – those that oversaw his education was the Congregation of Saint Joseph who had such an impact on the seminarian (he fostered an intense devotion to Saint Joseph) that he requested to be admitted into the order to which Eugenio Reffo welcomed him in 1917; he underwent his novitiate in Volvera.

[1] On 26 July 1930 he penned in his journal of the need to remain true to the Gospel and the teachings of Jesus Christ as he prepared for a new assignment since he knew he would soon go to Brazil after being put on the waiting list.

In 1957 he founded the School Sisters of Saint Maria Goretti where he acted as its director in addition to assuming the duties of a teacher.

Schiavo was named as Venerable on 14 December 2015 after Pope Francis confirmed that the late priest had indeed lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue – both cardinal and theological.

It was reported that the beatification would have taken place in January 2017 if the miracle received papal approval sometime in either November or December 2016 though was debunked when the official date was scheduled for some months later.

The miracle in question for his beatification involves the cure of Juvelino Cara who was rushed to hospital on 9 September 1997 with severe abdominal pains he suffered and was later diagnosed with incurable acute peritonitis.