Luigi established the Sisters of Jesus the King as a contemplative branch to his latter brother's Poor Daughters of Saint Cajetan.
Boccardo served as a simple parish priest in Turin and was noted for his commitment to religious vocations as well as for his devotion to methods of evangelization for the faithful under his charge.
[3] His parents - though farmers - managed to enroll their son in an education with the Barnabite Fathers where older brother Giovanni Ottavio also studied.
The latter's good example served to have a great impact on Boccardo who began to think that he might want to become a priest and received additional confidence in that path when his sister Giacinta entered - in 1874 - a cloistered convent.
It was around this time he contracted a severe illness in the form of an aggressive fever that almost killed him; a last resort to save him was water for him to drink from Lourdes.
On 12 April 1886 he was appointed as the Vice-Rector and the spiritual director of priests at the Ecclesiastical Boarding School of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Turin and served for three decades with Allamano who was the rector.
[3] Boccardo - on 18 January 1932 - decided to establish his own religious congregation as a contemplative branch of his late brother's order and named it the Sisters of Jesus the King.
The process later closed and received the validation of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on 7 February 1992; this allowed for the latter to commence their own investigation on Boccardo's life and works and began the so-called "Roman Phase".
The healing was approved as a legitimate miracle on 15 December 2005; Cardinal José Saraiva Martins presided over the beatification on 14 April 2007 on the behalf of Pope Benedict XVI.