Luigi Bolla (Yánkuam' Jíntia)
Italian Salesian missionary who spent sixty years among the Achuar of Peru and Ecuador
Who they were
Father Luigi Bolla, a Salesian from Schio, lived some sixty years with the Achuar people on the Peru-Ecuador border, translated the New Testament into Achuar and wrote to preserve their culture.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The nihil obstat came on 16 December 2020 and the diocesan inquiry ran in Lima from 27 September 2021 to May 2025.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.