Sr. Maria Troncatti Will Be Canonized

Sister Maria Troncatti, FMA, Will Be Canonized on October 19

(ANS - Vatican City – June 13, 2025) – On Friday, June 13, in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, Pope Leo XIV presided over the celebration of the ordinary public consistory for the canonization of some blesseds, whose causes were promoted under the pontificate of Pope Francis. On this occasion the Pontiff, decreed that Sister Maria Troncatti of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, who was born in Corteno Golgi, Italy, on February 16, 1883, and died in Sucua, Ecuador, on August 25, 1969, be enrolled as a saint on Sunday, October 19.

Together with Sr. Troncatti, the dates of canonization of eight other blesseds were also announced:

• Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati and Bl. Carlo Acutis will be declared saints on Sunday, September 7;
• Bl. Ignatius Choukrallah Maloyan, Bl. Peter To Rot, Bl. Vicenta Maria Poloni, Bl. Maria del Monte Carmelo Rendiles Martinez and Bl. José Gregorio Hernandez Cisneros, and Bl. Bartolo Longo will be canonized with Sr. Maria Troncatti on October 19.

Fr. Pierluigi Cameroni, the SDB postulator general of the Causes of Saints, who participated in the consistory, commented: “It was a true moment of grace and of the Church. These upcoming saints manifest the beauty of faith and become a source of inspiration for an authentic and credible Christian life. In greeting the Pope, I expressed the thanks of Mother Chiara Cazzuola and the entire Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. I also reported on the recent conclusion of the diocesan inquest of the Servant of God Luigi Bolla, missionary among the Shuar and Achuar Indios of Ecuador and Peru.”

The superior general of the FMAs, Mother Cazzuola, with the sisters of the general council, having learned the long-awaited news, addressed all the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians with these words: “Dear sisters, I reach out to you with joy, and with you I thank the Lord for the great things he is working in the Church and in the history of our Institute, with the direct intervention of Mary Help of Christians. I am convinced that the imminent canonization of Sr. Maria Troncatti is for all the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians an extraordinary grace, a call to renew ourselves in order to continue, with courage and joy, on the path of holiness that God is asking us to travel today.”

Then speaking of Sr. Troncatti's holiness, she notes: “The definition that sums it all up in a few words is surely that of a happy and faithful Daughter of Mary Help of Christians and, therefore, Mother! In her, the maternal dimension that generates an abundance of life around her and finds its source in a profound intimacy with the Lord clearly emerges.”

To get to know the next new figure of holiness recognized in the Salesian Family, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians are setting up the www.mariatroncatti.org website with her biography, photos, texts, multimedia resources, news and all the material for in-depth study and dissemination relating to Sr Maria Troncatti, as well as the initiatives and events promoted by the sister's province of origin, the Lombardy Province (ILO), and the Province of Ecuador, where she gave her life as a missionary.