The Postulator General emphasises that ‘this is a great achievement, the result of the passionate and competent work of the members of the Diocesan Tribunal in Lima and all those who contributed, in particular the Historical Commission, the theological censors and the vice-postulator, Fr Jesus Adrian Jurado Alarcon, SDB’.
The Congregation for the Causes of Saints will now be asked to appoint a Rapporteur to guide the preparation of the ‘Positio super virtutibus’ of the Servant of God.
The diocesan inquiry took place at the archiepiscopal curia in Lima, Peru, from 27 September 2021 to 30 May 2025.
The life of Fr Luigi Bolla (Father Yankuam’) among the Shuar and Achuar peoples teaches us that mission is not ‘doing something’ but choosing to ‘be there’, allowing oneself to be profoundly transformed by the encounter with those to whom the mission is directed. He knew how to realise God’s dream for him: in 1943 and 1944, at the age of 11 and 12, the young Oratory member Luigi Bolla heard the voice of Jesus (he was certain of it) at the oratory in Schio, indicating his plan: ‘You will be a missionary in the jungle among the indigenous people and you will bring them my Word. You will walk a great deal on foot in the jungle…’. And all this came true between 1953 and 2013.
