(ANS – Ciudad del Vaticano) – On Friday, 13 June 2025, at 9:00 a.m., in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father Leo XIV presided over the celebration of the Third Hour and the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Canonisation of some Blesseds, whose causes were promoted under the pontificate of Pope Francis. On this occasion the Pontiff, in his first Ordinary Public Consistory, decreed that Maria Troncatti, a professed Sister of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, born in Córteno Golgi (Italy) on 16 February 1883 and died in Sucúa (Ecuador) on 25 August 1969, be enrolled in the Roll of Saints on Sunday 19 October 2025.
Together with Sister Troncatti, the dates of canonisation of eight other Blesseds were also announced:
• Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati and Blessed Carlo Acutis will be entered in the Roll of Saints on Sunday, 7 September 2025;
• While Blessed Ignatius Choukrallah Maloyan, Blessed Peter To Rot, Blessed Vicenta Maria Poloni, Blessed Maria del Monte Carmelo Rendiles Martínez and Blessed José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros and Blessed Bartolo Longo will be enrolled in the Roll of Saints with Sister Maria Troncatti on Sunday 19 October 2025.
“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,” commented the Postulator General of the Causes of Saints, Fr Pierluigi Cameroni, who participated in the Consistory presided over by Pope Leo XIV.
The Superior General of the Institute of the FMA, Mother Chiara Cazzuola, with the sisters of the General Council, having learnt 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 canonisation 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 figure of the next new figure of holiness recognised in the Salesian Family, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians are setting up the www.mariatroncatti.org website with the 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.
Source: ANS – “Agencia iNfo Salesiana”