Roman Catholic Bishop. Ragusa born Giovanni Jacono worked as a bricklayer after school hours until being noticed by the local headmaster, who helped him apply for a grant from the municipality which led him to enter the technical school of of the city. Feeling called to the priesthood, following his military service, he asked Cardinal Giuseppe Francica-Nava de Bontifè's permission as archbishop of Catania, to enter seminary. Noticing his devoutness and intelligence, he accepted him with the condition that he would sleep behind the seminary door every night as a porter after being exempted from the normal fee for seminarians due to his family's poor economic means. Ordained priest in 1902, Cardinal Nava sent him to Rome to pursue his studies at the Athenaeum of San Apollinare, where among his classmates was a young Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, future Pope John XXIII, canonized in 2014. Back in Catania, he served as spiritual director and later rector of the archdiocesan seminary and canon penitentiary of the cathedral. Appointed bishop of Molfetta, Giovinazzo and Terlizzi in 1918, he received his episcopal consecration in Catania from Cardinal Nava himself. Transferred to the diocese of Caltanissetta in 1921, he retired from office in 1956, moving to his native Ragusa where he passed suddenly away on the evening of May 26, 1957. Leaving nothing behind him, except for 15,000 Italian lire found in an envelope on his desk, on which was written "To the poor of St. Vincent", as the bishop of Ragusa, Francesco Pennisi well described him in his funeral homily, Jacono was "the poorest bishop of all bishops of Sicily". "He now descends to the grave, poor, with a chasuble which carries no silver nor gold, because of gold is covered by his holy soul; without a pastoral because a realm of legality is his holy life": a fitting tribute by bishop Pennisi who had a beautiful monument erected on his tomb at the cathedral of Ragusa. The cause of his beatification is in process.