BEOTTI Don Giuseppe

(26 August 1912 – 20 July 1944)

Church to beatify Fr Giuseppe Beotti, killed by Nazis in 1944

“Giuseppe Beotti was born in 1912 into a farming family and became a Diocesan priest on 2 April 1938. He immediately distinguished himself for his assiduous charitable work on behalf of the needy and his commitment to the education of young people. He offered his help to all: partisans, Jews, soldiers, the wounded. During the German occupation, he defended the rights of his parishioners and was then subjected to criminal proceedings, which came to nothing.”

He rescued and sheltered fleeing soldiers; prisoners who had escaped from the war; and those who were persecuted, including some hundred Jewish people that he (hid) in cottages with the help of his parishioners.

Faced with the danger of Nazi round-ups and reprisals, Fr Giuseppe did not flee, but remained in his church in Sidolo, in the province of Parma, assiduous in prayer. He was arrested and shot on 20 July 1944 in Sidolo, together with a priest and a seminarian who had taken refuge in the church with him. His murder was motivated by the Nazis’ hatred of the transgressors of their criminal anti-Semitic law.”

Extract from the Vatican News

In 1940, he was sent to the city of Bardi, serving as parish priest in the village of Sidolo…. and it appeared that “he did not hesitate to lend his assistance without making any exceptions” whether his parishioners were Jewish, fugitive soldiers, prisoners who had escaped, resistance fighters or anyone suffering persecution or wounded whilst fleeing from the fascist Nazi regime.

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Roman Catholic Priest of the diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio; born on 26 August 1912 in Campremoldo Sotto, Gragnano Trebbiense, Piacenza (Italy) and killed in odium fidei on 20 July 1944 in Sidolo di Bardi, Parma (Italy)

https://www.causesanti.va/it/santi-e-beati/giuseppe-beotti.html