Process of Beatification of Salesian Missionary Luigi Bolla Has Begun
Source: Vatican News
(ANS – Lima – August 20, 2021) – On August 12, Archbishop Carlos Gustavo Castillo Mattasoglio of Lima issued the “Edict of Introduction of the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God Luigi Bolla (1932-2013).” Fr. Bolla was a priest of the Society of Saint Francis de Sales who gave his life for the Achuar people on the Amazonian border between Peru and Ecuador.
The archdiocese of Lima invited all the
faithful to provide useful information and documents (letters, writings, etc.)
regarding the cause, to be presented to the diocesan tribunal of Lima. The edict,
which will be kept for two months in the Lima cathedral, will then be
communicated to the vicariate apostolic of Yurimaguas, Peru , to the vicariate apostolic
of Mendez, Ecuador, and to the diocese of Vicenza, Italy.
Yankuam ‘Jintia, “Light of Twilight,” the
name given by the Achuar people to the man who walked day and night with them
for decades, is thus a step closer to beatification.
Fr. Bolla dedicated his life to
evangelization, enduring harsh living conditions, always alongside his Achuar
brothers and sisters, who dwell on the border between Peru and Ecuador, several
days’ journey from Yurimaguas, the nearest city, located in eastern Peru.
“This news causes great joy not only
among the members of the Society of St. Francis de Sales,” explains the Pan-Amazon
Ecclesial Network, “but also throughout the vicariate of Yurimaguas and the
Amazonian Church, since Fr. Luigi Bolla was a great missionary example who,
with his unique and prolific life testimony, inspires the new paths of the
synodal Church, outgoing and intercultural, that Pope Francis requests.”
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