About: Giuseppe Marchetti

Giuseppe Marchetti (3 October 1869 – 14 December 1896) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest from the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo and the co-founder of the Sisters Missionaries of Saint Charles Borrome; and from the beatification process, titled as a Venerable. Marchetti served first as a local pastor after his ordination but decided to later help Giovanni Battista Scalabrini in his mission to tend to and support Italian emigrants. He started to take trips to Brazil to focus on Italians relocating there and later moved there to found an orphanage and to work alongside abandoned children and emigrants. He also invited his sister, Assunta Marchetti, to help him in his work and she would continue his mission for the four decades after his death. She herself would become beatified, a