 On 18 April 1930 he was taken from Brescia to Milan where he died on 1 May; he had met his nephew Alessandro on 30 April to bid him farewell.His remains are in his old parish church in his village of Trivolzio after being exhumed and relocated on 16 May 1951.The canonization process opened in the Milan archdiocese under Cardinal Blessed Ildefonso Schuster on 1 April 1949 in an informative process that collected documentation until the process closed in 1951.