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Assunta Marchetti SS | |
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Born | Lombrici di Camaiore, Lucca, Kingdom of Italy | 15 August 1871
Died | 1 July 1948 São Paulo, Brazil | (aged 76)
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
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 Italian Roman Catholic religious sister and the co-founder of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo Scalabrinians; she worked in Brazil from 1895 until her death.[1][2] She has been beatified as a Blessed Mother. Her priest brother Giuseppe is titled as Venerable on the path to sainthood.[3]
Her beatification was celebrated on 25 October 2014; Cardinal Angelo Amato presided over the beatification on the behalf of Pope Francis.