Carlo Tancredi Falletti di Barolo
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. 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.
Venerable Carlo Tancredi Falletti di Barolo | |
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| Born | 26 October 1782 Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia |
| Died | 4 September 1838 (aged 55) Chiari, Brescia, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia |
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.
His beatification process launched in Turin in 1995 and he became titled as a Servant of God. 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.