Assunta Marchetti
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| Beatified | 25 October 2014, São Paulo Cathedral, Brazil by Cardinal Angelo Amato |
| Feast | 1 July |
Assunta Marchetti (15 August 1871 – 1 July 1948) was an
Her beatification was celebrated on 25 October 2014; Cardinal Angelo Amato presided over the beatification on the behalf of Pope Francis.
Life
Maria Assunta Caterina Marchetti was born on 15 August 1871 to Angelo Marchetti (1846-93) and Carola Ghilarducci as the third of eleven children; she received her
Her aunt Caterina was an influence for her religious formation.Marchetti led a pious life as a child but suffered hardships with a frail mother and the premature death of her father from pneumonia in 1893 and she had to help her mother and halt pursuing her dream to enter the Carmelites. The girl later met Giovanni Battista Scalabrini and made vows as a nun into his hands on 25 October 1895 in Piacenza with her widowed mother and two companions Angela Larini and Maria Francheschini.[2][3] In 1895 her priest brother Giuseppe invited her to work with him abroad in Brazil to cater to the orphans of Italian immigrants.[1] Marchetti accepted the invitation and travelled there alongside her mother and two companions (Larini and Francheschini) setting off from Genoa on 26 October 1895. Both she and her priest brother later co-founded the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo - or the Scalabrinian Sisters - not long after their arrival. Her mother later left Brazil back for her homeland to tend to her children in 1897. In October 1897 she made her perpetual profession to Father Faustino Consoni. She collaborated with Scalabrini in 1904 when he visited Brazil for a month not long before the latter died.
Marchetti was hospitalized in 1947 and was treated for varicose veins and erysipelas. Marchetti's condition deteriorated over the next several months and she later died in 1948 at 3:15 with two priests and others present at her bedside.[1]
Beatification
The beatification process started under
The process for investigating a miracle took place in Porto Alegre from 7 April 1999 until 20 July 2000 prior to the C.C.S. validating this process on 16 November 2001. Medical experts approved this healing as a miracle on 9 February 2012 as did theologians on 14 February 2013 and the C.C.S. on 24 September 2013. Pope Francis approved this miracle on 9 October 2013 and the beatification date was confirmed on 17 December 2013.[citation needed]
Cardinal
The current postulator for this cause is Sister Leocadia Mezzomo.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c d "Blessed Assunta Marchetti". Saints SQPN. 11 April 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- ^ a b c "Blessed Mother Assunta Marchetti - Biography". Scalabriniae. Retrieved 3 December 2016.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c "Blessed Assunta Marchetti". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
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