He exercised his pastoral work in Ornaro and Greccio in addition to Rieti where he was based.
He worked in Brazil until 1910 and returned home to take part in the General Chapter of Missionaries.
[2] The cause of beatification started on 29 August 1990 in Rieti and the work spanned from 1991 until 1997 when all the documentation was assembled as the Positio: two volumes on his life and his heroic virtue.
Pope Benedict XVI recognized Rinaldi's life of heroic virtue and proclaimed him to be venerable on 19 December 2005.
The medical board that works on causes in Rome met twice on 26 April 2007 and 12 December 2013 and voted that the healing was indeed a miracle.