On 25 November 2024, the Holy Father authorised the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the Decree concerning the miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Sister Maria Troncatti – born in Córteno Golgi (Italy) on 16 February 1883 and died in Sucúa (Ecuador) on 25 August 1969 – and the date of canonisation is currently awaited.
Like every Saint, the figure of Sister Maria Troncatti has several facets, some of which have been focused on to present her in today's context and to the Church. And from Fatima, in Portugal, during the Salesian "good night" delivered to her sisters participating in the three-year Verification of the Interprovincial Conference on Europe and the Middle East, Mother Chiara Cazzuola illustrated the choice made.
The image is an authentic photograph that shows her smiling. "In agreement with the General Council" the Superior General of the FMA explained, " we have chosen this photo, in which she is already well-advanced in life that expresses, from the features of her face, the maturity she has achieved and the motherliness that was recognized in Sister Maria Troncatti by the local people. After the first approaches with them, it is she who earned the title of ‘Madrecita’, a very tender nickname that in Spanish means‘ mamma ’, something very deeply felt. And so she was called until the end of her life and is still remembered today with what, I would say, is the most beautiful of nicknames".
"There were many other beautiful photos" the Mother General of the FMA said, "but this seemed to us the one that most expresses the fullness of life in Jesus, the fullness of the gift and also the fullness of motherhood."
The slogan reads: "Mother and missionary artisan of peace and reconciliation." In this case too, Mother Chiara Cazzuola gave reasons for the choice: "Sister Maria Troncatti is a Mother, first of all. She is a missionary, because what she did with the strength of God and the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, only a missionary with a large and generous heart can do. She is an artisan of peace and reconciliation because, in her constant mission, she has always tried to bring the settlers and the Indians together, because it was a war. going on between them."
"And her life was offered precisely to heal a fratricidal struggle that could have brought many victims. It was offered so that there would be peace between these two populations."
