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The miracle required for his beatification was investigated in the
Italian diocese of its origin and received the validation of the C.C.S. in Rome on 27 May 1988. The medical board voted in favor of the miracle on 9 November 1988 while the theologians did likewise on 3 February 1989. The pope voiced
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He returned to Alba in 1936 as the director of the mother-house and dedicated himself to the cultural and spiritual formation of the
Sisters Disciples of the Divine Master - Alberione's new Pauline institute. He was recalled to Rome in 1946 to serve as the Vicar General of the institute there. He
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as a child at the age of twelve. It was
Alberione who heard Giaccardo's first confession and was impressed with the latter's spirit and devotion to the sacraments. In 1908 the priest invited Giaccardo to go with him to Alba to start his studies to become a priest. He studied for the priesthood in
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Giaccardo died on the eve of the Feast of the
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for permission to leave his studies to join
Alberione to which the bishop was reluctant to approve. On 4 September 1917 he assumed the religious name of "Timoteo". The Bishop of Alba later allowed Giaccardo to resume his studies not long after this. Giaccardo received
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in an informative process that commenced on 8 June 1955 and finished on 19 June 1957. The first of two smaller processes opened in Alba on 7 June 1955 and concluded on 6 November 1956. The formal introduction to the cause on 10 December 1964 - under
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established. Giaccardo became the latter's closest aide and confidant and was involved in promoting the congregation and the
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in 1920. Alberione would go on to call
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on 13 June 1896 to the farmers
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