Maria Assunta Caterina Marchetti was born on August 15, 1871, in Lombrici di Camaiore (Lucca). From a young age, she manifested the desire to consecrate herself entirely to God in the cloistered life. Divine providence, however, led her to accept another proposal that God made to her through her brother, Father Joseph, a missionary among the Italian migrants in Brazil. Together with her mother and two other companions, in Piacenza, on October 25, 1895, she made her religious vows in the hands of the Founder, today Saint John Baptist Scalabrini. After the religious celebration in the Chapel of the Bishop’s Palace in Piacenza, they left for Genoa and, together with the migrants, took their place on the ship Fortunata Raggio that would take them to Brazil. They formed the first nucleus of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo. Mother Assunta lived as a missionary in Brazil for fifty-three years, always animated by great charity towards the orphans, migrants, and the sick. She was a tireless model of evangelical self-giving to the least ones and a faithful guardian of the Scalabrinian charism. She died on July 1, 1948, in the Christopher Columbus Orphanage in Villa Prudente, São Paulo, Brazil. After a long canonical process, she was proclaimed Blessed on October 25, 2014, in São Paulo, Brazil. Here follows a biblical-theological profile of Blessed Assunta, co-foundress of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo, Scalabrinians.
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