He was born on November 18, 1921, in Nove di Bassano (Vi), the fourth of five children of exemplary Christian spouses, of decent economic conditions. Dad was a baker. He attends elementary school with some difficulty also because of the work he began at the age of ten in his father's oven, he reaches the fifth grade, in the school year 1936¬37

Since the age of nine Antonio has been enrolled among the aspirants of Catholic Action. From this moment on, his interior life grew ever more around the three fundamental values ​​(prayer, action, sacrifice). Even in the absence of extraordinary events, Antonio very coherently assumes a linear, decidedly Christian conduct.

On 8 January 1941 he left for military service. Following the armistice, he manages to return to Nove. From then until the end of hostilities he continued his work as a baker at his father's bakery, managing to escape the roundups carried out in that period by the Nazi-fascists. Although he is no longer young, he decides to become a religious in the order of the servants of Mary. On 1947 May 3 he entered the convent of Monte Berico for the period of postulancy; on 1948 October XNUMX he took on the habit of servants assuming the name of Fra Gioacchino Maria and began the year of novitiate in Isola Vicentina.

The first symptoms of the disease appear in January 1949, a fatal tuberculous meningitis is diagnosed. On April 20, on his deathbed, Fra Gioacchino made his temporary profession of vows; the following 28 April he dies.

He was declared venerable on April 8, 1997.