Giuseppe Marchetti (priest)

Giuseppe Marchetti, CS (3 October 1869 – 14 December 1896) was an Italian Catholic priest in the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo and the co-founder of the Sisters Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo.

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, as a Blessed Mother.

The process for his beatification started its initial planning phase in the mid-1990s that resulted in a formal process activating and allowing for Marchetti to be titled as a Servant of God. He later became titled as Venerable in mid-2016 after Pope Francis acknowledged that he had lived a life of heroic virtue.