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Assunta Marchetti was born on August 15, 1871, in Lombrici di Camiore, Lucca, Kingdom of Italy, the third of eleven children. Her father, Angelo, was a miller, and her mother, Carola Ghilarducci, was a homemaker. In 1880, the family moved to Mulino di Camaiore for the father’s work.
From the time she was a child, Assunta dreamt of becoming a Carmelite Sister one day. However, she had to help her mother with raising the other children of the family, especially when her Assunta’s father died in 1893 from pneumonia. Though she put her dreams of entering religious life on hold, she never abandoned them.
Of her ten siblings, there was one who especially influenced the course of her life. He was Giuseppe, second of the children born to Angelo and Carola. Giuseppe became a priest in 1892 and decided to become a foreign missionary in a new religious order founded by Giovanni Battista Scalabrini (now Saint), the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo.
When Giuseppe learned about the great needs of Italians who had gone to the New World, he went to Brazil where he began caring for orphans, among other things. Soon, he found himself with two hundred orphans to care for, and he knew he could not do this alone. Therefore, he invited his sister Assunta and his widowed mother to come to Brazil to help him in his work. Assunta and Carola gladly accepted the invitation, and they left for Brazil with two of their friends, Angela Larini and Maria Francheschini, on October 26, 1895, to help Father Giuseppe.
Soon after Assunta’s arrival in Brazil, she and her brother Giuseppe co-founded a women’s branch of the Scalabrinians, the Scalabrini Sisters. Sister Assunta and the other sisters served the Italian emigrants and orphans for many years.
Sister Assunta died n July 1, 1948, in São Paulo, Brazil. She was beatified on October 25, 2014, in the cathedral of São Paulo. Blessed Assunta Marchetti’s feast day is July 1, and she is a patron saint of the Scalabrini Sisters.
Blessed Assunta’s brother Giuseppe died when he was only 27. He is now known as Venerable Giuseppe Marchetti.
