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Giulia Vittorina Colbert
of Maulévrier
Giulia Vittorina Colbert of Maulévrier was born in the Maulévrier castle in Vandea, the 26th June 1786. She lost her mother when she was still infant and she was educated by her father.
In the 1806 she married the Marquis Carlo Tancredi Falletti of Barolo, and she moved to Torino. In the 1814, she started to be interested in the female prisoners and she decided to create some educational and welfare institutions, with the help of the religious orders of the “Suore di San Giuseppe” and “Fratelli delle Scuole Cristiane”.
She established the “Rifugio”, a place where the ex-female prisoners and the dissolute youth could find a familiar environment and a dignified job.
In addiction, she also founded the “Filomena’s Hospital” for the disabled children refused by the municipalities, hospices, kindergarten, schools for instruction and family, oratories for the needy girls, a soup kitchen and two religious institutions: “Sorelle Penitenti di Santa Maria Maddalena”, that is now known as “Figlie di Gesù Buon Pastore” and “Suore di Sant’Anna delle Provvidenza”, that was responsible for the education of the young lower class ladies.
She died after a long and painful illness the 19th January 1864. She rests in Turin, in the church of “Santa Giulia” that she herself ordered to build. |
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