Carlo Tancredi Falletti di Barolo | |
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Born | Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia | 26 October 1782
Died | 4 September 1838 Chiari, Brescia, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia | (aged 55)
Carlo Tancredi Falletti di Barolo (26 October 1782 – 4 September 1838) was an Italian Roman Catholic noble who, with his wife Juliette Colbert, co-founded the Sisters of Saint Anne.[1] Born and raised in Turin, Falletti came from a long line of nobles originally from France. He was admitted into the court of Napoleon Bonaparte where he would meet his future wife whom he married in 1806; he became a count in 1810 and relocated in 1814 to Turin with his wife where he became part of the local council and helped in infrastructure and educational developments.[2][3]
Falletti's work extended to establishing a bank and a shelter for the children of poor workers while in 1835 he tended to victims of a cholera outbreak. His efforts in Turin during the epidemic as well as his other works saw him made a Commander of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.[2][1]
His beatification process launched in Turin in 1995 and he became titled as a Servant of God.[1][4] He was titled as Venerable on 21 December 2018 after Pope Francis acknowledged that Falletti had lived a life of heroic virtue; his wife had been named as such back in mid-2015.