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"Detachment was something that cost me a lot: detachment from my parents, Superiors, town, language, everything; when I boarded the steamer I said goodbye forever. We will see each other again in heaven."
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Maria Troncatti
Maria Troncatti, FMA was an Italian Catholic member of the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco. Troncatti was from a farming family and entered that congregation in 1907; she worked as a nurse during World War I and became part of the missions in Ecuador from 1922 until her death in a plane crash in 1969. Troncatti was beatified on 24 November 2012 and canonized on 19 October 2025.