(ANS –Vatican City, 12th Nov
2008) – A few days before the conclusion of the General
Chapter of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, expected on 15
November, the Holy Father has asked the Congregation for the Causes of
Saints to publish the Decree on the heroicity of the life and virtues of
Sr. Maria Troncatti, a Salesian Sister, born at Corteno Golgi in the
Province of Brescia on 16 February 1883.
The
Decree which bears the date 8 November, was signed and made public today, 12
November, when Archbishop Angelo Amato, Prefect of the same Congregation and
Bishop Michele Di Ruberto, Secretary, signed it in the Hall of Congresses,
in the presence of the new Superior General, Mother Yvonne Reungoat, of the
former Mothers Generals and the Councillors. Also present was Sr. Piera
Cavaglià, Moderator of the Chapter and Secretary General, the Postulator of
the Salesian Family, Fr Enrico dal Covolo, and the Vice Postulator Sr
Giuliana Accornero.
The
new Venerable – at present the ninth in the Salesian Family immediately
after Margaret Occhiena, the Mamma of Don Bosco – is a fascinating example
of a missionary. Her special field of work was among the Shuar peoples, in
the south east region of Ecuador. There she spent more than forty years from
1925 until her death, undertaking an enormous work of evangelisation, in the
midst of all kinds of dangers She was a nurse, surgeon, orthopedician,
dentist and anaesthetist; but above all she was an exceptional catechist,
full of faith, of patience and Salesian loving kindness. She worked
effectively for the emancipation of the Shuar women.
On
25 August 1969 Sr Maria was in a plane on the way to make her retreat.
Shortly after take off the plane crashed. The radio of the Shuar Federation
gave the sad news: “Sister Maria Troncatti, our little Mother is dead …”.
In
these last few days the acts of the diocesan enquiry into a presumed
miracle of a cure in the Archdiocese of Portoviejo – also in Ecuador -
through the intercession of Sr. Troncatti have arrived at the Congregation
for the Causes of Saints. If the Roman enquiry is concluded positively the
heroic missionary of the Shuar should in a short time reach the honours of
the altar.
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