Maria Assunta Caterina Marchetti, born on August 15, 1871 in Lombrici di Camaiore (Lucca), from a young age expressed her desire to consecrate herself entirely to God in cloistered life. Divine providence, however, led her to accept another proposal that God made to her through her brother, Father Giuseppe, a missionary among Italian migrants in Brazil. Together with his mother and two other companions, on October 25, 1895, in Piacenza, he took religious vows in the hands of the Founder, today Saint Giovanni Battista Scalabrini. After the religious celebration in the Episcopal Chapel of Piacenza, they left for Genoa and, together with the migrants, boarded the boat Fortunata Raggio who would take them to Brazil. They formed the first nucleus of the Hermanas Misioneras de San Carlos Borromeo. Mother Assunta lived as a missionary in Brazil for fifty-three years, always animated by great charity for the elderly, migrants and the sick. She was a tireless model of evangelical commitment to the least of these and a faithful custodian of the Scalabrinian charism. She died on July 1, 1948 at the Cristóbal Colón orphanage in Villa Prudente, São Paulo, Brazil. After a long canonical process, she was proclaimed Blessed on October 25, 2014 in São Paulo, Brazil. The following is a biblical-theological profile of the Blessed, co-founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo, Scalabrinians.
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