Born in Besozzo (Varese) on 10 November 1850.
Died in Rho (Milan) on 8 October 1933.
Ordained a priest on May 10, 1874, he immediately entered the Oblates of Rho and was for many years a moral teacher in the Lugano seminary. From 1902 to 1908 he was superior of the Institute of Foreign Missions and in 1909 he was promoted to mitrate abbot of S. Ambrogio in Milan, where he remained until 1929, when, due to his poor health, he retired to private life in Rho.
In 1902 Father Roncari declined the request of the young priest *Aurelio Bacciarini, eager to abandon his parish ministry to enter the College of the Oblates of Rho, both because of his health which seemed precarious to him, and so as not to deprive Ticino of an excellent priest. In 1909 Don Guanella, encouraged by Pius X to find a legal form that would safeguard the assets of his congregations from a feared confiscation by the state, went several times to Rho to negotiate with Father Roncari the possibility of transferring them to the *Piccolo Credito di Rho, a bank cooperative, then anonymous, created by missionary oblates.
Sources:
Oblate College of Rho, Menology (courtesy of Father Gianfranco Barbieri).
«The Catholic Missions», 1933, p. 206.
Guanellian sources:
CONGREGATIO DE CAUSIS SANCTORUM, Luganen. Beatifica¬tionis et canonizationis servi Dei Aurelii Bacciarini [...]. Positio super virtutibus, Summarium, Rome, Tipografia Guerra, 1996, p. 29 (witness Mons. Emilio Cattori).
SACRA RITUUM CONGREGATIONE, Comen. seu Mediolanen. Beatificationis et canonizationis servi Dei Aloysii Guanella [...]. Positio super virtutibus, Summarium, Romae, Typis Guerra et Belli, 1950, pp. 699, 707 (witness Don Martino Cugnasca).
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