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Giuseppina Nicoli was born in Casatisma, Pavia, Italy on November 18, 1863, fifth of ten children. Her father as a magistrate, and her mother was a daughter of a lawyer. Giuseppina was a good student who earned a teaching certificate as a young adult. From the beginning of her teaching career, she showed a special love for teaching the poor.
In 1884, Giuseppina joined the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in Turin. After her initial formation program, her community sent her to Cagliari, a city in the south of the of Sardinia in 1885. It was on the island of Sardinia that Sister Giuseppina would spend most of her religious life.
In Cagliari, Sister Giuseppe served the poor and orphans, and she helped nurse the sick in a cholera epidemic of 1886. On Christmas Eve of 1888, she made her simple vows. In 1893, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. This, however, did not prevent her from serving several more years as an outstanding religious.
In June of 1899, she was transferred to Sassari, a city in the north part of Sardinia to be the director of an orphanage there. In addition to managing the orphanage, Sister Giuseppina taught catechism to the poor and the illiterate. She also taught religious education to daughters of the rich who attended schools that had no religious education. While in Sassari, Sister Giuseppina encouraged Eucharistic Adoration and supported groups for Catholic men and women, the Sons of Mary and the Daughters of Mary respectively. She also devoted some of her time ministering to prisoners.
In 1910, her order transferred Sister Giuseppina to Turin to serve as provincial administrator and then the director of the sisters’ seminary. However, around 1913, Sister Giuseppina was transferred back to Sassari. She was surprised at the political changes that had taken place. Though the civil officials who knew her admired Sister Giuseppina’s goodness and talents, they were unable to counter false accusations from an angry man.
Because of the calumny against her, Sister Giuseppina was unable to resume leading the orphanage where she had earlier administered, so her order transferred her to Cagliari on August 7, 1914. In Cagliari, Sister Giuseppina used all her talents to serve the people, especially the young and the poor. For example, Sister Giuseppina helped nurse wounded soldiers from World War I, turning the kindergarten into a hospital. She also helped the local bishop set up the Dorotean Society for lay consecrated women. To help her care for children afflicted with rickets and scrofulosis, she founded the Young Women of Charity in 1917.
During the entire time Sister Giuseppina served in Sardinia, she always tried to work with the Monelli di Maria(Urchins of Mary), children who were abandoned, orphaned, homeless, or discarded by their families. She made she they got to Mass, received catechism instruction, and learned to read and write. She also strove to ensure that the children learned a useful trade so that they could support themselves in the world. Although many public officials secretly admired Sister Giuseppina’s work with such children, often they joined other officials in their public view that such children could not be saved.
Sister Giuseppina died on New Year’s Eve, 1924 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. She was beatified on February 3, 2008. Blessed Giuseppina Nicoli’s feast day is February 3.
