Maria Assunta Caterina Marchetti was born on August 15, 1871 in Lombrici di Camaiore (Lucca). From a young age, she expressed her desire to consecrate herself entirely to God in cloistered life. Divine providence, however, urged her to accept another proposal that God made to her through her brother, Father José, a missionary among Italian migrants in Brazil. Together with her mother and two other companions, in Piacenza, on October 25, 1895, she took her religious vows in the hands of the Founder, today Saint John Baptist Scalabrini. After the religious celebration in the Chapel of the Episcopate in Piacenza, they left for Genoa and, together with the migrants, boarded the ship Fortunata Raggio, which led them to Brazil. They formed the first nucleus of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo. Mother Assunta lived as a missionary in Brazil for fifty-three years, always animated by great charity for orphans, migrants and the sick. She was a tireless model of evangelical self-giving to minors and a faithful guardian of the Scalabrinian charism. She died on July 1, 1948, at the Christopher Columbus orphanage in Vila 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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