Venerable 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. 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. Carlo Ippolito Ernesto Tancredi Maria Falletti was born in his parents' estate in Turin to the Barolo Marquess Ottavio Alessandro Falletti (27.7.1753-30.1.1828) and Paolina d'Oncieu (1760-1838) on 26 October 1782. He was the last descendant of the noble Falletti line. In his childhood he was known for his intelligence as well as his sense of justice coupled with piousness. He was concerned with matters relating to social justice and these traits grew as he aged. But Falletti also possessed a strong will to promote and operate for the good of all. In his childhood he would often travel with his father to France as well as to other places such as the Netherlands and Switzerland.