Juliette Colbert de Barolo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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1785-1864, philanthropist woman
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Place of Birth: Maulévrier, Pays de la Loire, France
About Juliette Colbert de Barolo
- Juliette Colbert Falletti de Barolo (26 June 1786 - 19 January 1864) - born as Juliette Victoire Colbert - was a French Roman Catholic philanthropist and the founder of both the Sisters of Saint Anne and the Daughters of Jesus the Good Shepherd.
- Colbert was a well-educated girl living in France during and after the tumultuous French Revolution which caused her faith to deepen since she had the desire to aid the poor and neglected.
- Her marriage to a nobleman in Paris led to the two setting off to live in Turin where the couple threw themselves into charitable works.
- The couple bore no children but rather "adopted" the town's poor.
- Colbert was widowed some decades later and became professed into the Secular Franciscan Order while establishing hospitals and schools as well as other charitable institutions.Her cause for canonization opened in late 1990 (she became titled as a Servant of God) and culminated in mid-2015 when Pope Francis confirmed her heroic virtue and named her as Venerable.
- Her husband's cause was opened in 1995 and he remains a Servant of God.
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