Antonio Pavoni
Antonio Pavoni, OP (c. 1325 – 9 April 1374) was an Italian Catholic priest and member from the Order of Preachers. He served as an inquisitor-general for Pope Urban V in combatting Waldensians in the Lombard region, but the Waldensians succeeded in killing him in an ambush as he preached an Eastertide homily in 1374.
Pavoni was seen as one killed in hatred of the faith but Pope Gregory XI did not confer formal beatification. Pope Pius IX beatified Pavoni on 4 December 1856 in Saint Peter's Basilica upon the confirmation of the slain priest's local and popular cultus - or veneration.
Patron saint of Finding lost items
In the Martyrology
- April 9 Blessed Antonio Pavoni, Dominican priest and martyr