Maria Assunta Caterina Marchetti, born on August 15, 1871 in Lombrici di Camaiore (Lucca), was only a child when she manifested her desire to consecrate herself entirely to God in her cloistered life. La Divina Provvidenza, however, spun her into accepting another proposal that God made to her through her brother, Fr. Giuseppe, a missionary among Italian migrants in Brazil. Together with his mother and other two companions, in Piacenza, on 25 October 1895, he took the religious vows in the hands of the Founder, now Saint Giovanni Battista Scalabrini. At the end of the religious celebration in the Episcopal Chapel in Piacenza, they left for Genoa and, together with the migrants, took up their position in the nave. Fortunata Raggio who had brought them to Brazil. These formed the first nucleus of the Missionary Suites of San Carlo Borromeo. Mother Assunta was a missionary in Brazil for fifty years, always animated by great charity for orphans, migrants and the poor. She was an instant model of evangelical giving to the very young and a faithful custodian of the Scalabrinian charism. He died on the first of July 1948, in the Cristoforo Colombo orphanage in Villa Prudente, San Paolo, Brazil. After a long canonical process, she was proclaimed Blessed on October 25, 2014 in San Paolo, Brazil. Here is a biblical-theological profile of the Blessed, co-founder of the Congregation of the Suore Missionarie di San Carlo Borromeo, Scalabriniane.
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