Antonio_Pavoni
Antonio Pavoni, OP (c. 1325 - 9 April 1374) was an Italian Catholic priest and member from the Order of Preachers.[1] 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.[2]
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.