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. It was during that timeframe that he founded homes for the children of poor workers and helped to pave new roads and establish new gardens and fountains for Turin's beautification. Falletti also set aside land that became the Cimitero Monumentale in 1828 and set aside a personal plot for himself and his wife. In 1834 he and Juliette co-founded the
Sisters of Saint Anne which would be dedicated to education and tending to the poor and those in prisons. In 1835 a
cholera epidemic struck the
Piedmont area and soon spread to Turin. Falletti organized help for the ill and set about establishing aid centers and infirmaries open to all people who required medical assistance. But he was overcome with fear that Juliette could be infected so allowed her to render aid to widows and children while forbidding her from going near contagious patients. But this fear soon decreased and he allowed her to tend to whomever she wished. Falletti's efforts - civic and during the epidemic - saw him made a commander in the
Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus; but his efforts during the epidemic saw him exhausted and he once confided to Juliette: "I have confidence that Providence will arrange for me to leave first". His health started to decline due to exhaustion and his doctors recommended that he travel to
Austria in order to recuperate. But the couple stopped first in
Verona hoping the alpine air would aid his recuperation when his condition deteriorated (struck with a violent
fever) to the point that Juliette believed it would be best to return to Turin. But his condition had declined to the point that the couple had to stop in
Chiari in
Brescia where he received the
extreme unction before he died during the night on 4 September 1838 in his wife's arms. His funeral was celebrated in the church of San Dalmazio in Turin, with a large crowd of poor people in attendance. Falletti's remains were interred in the plot he had set for himself but were later relocated in 2013 to rest besides the remains of his wife (which had been moved back in 1899) in the Santa Giulia church in Vanchiglia in metropolitan Turin. In 2008 his congregation of Sisters of Sainte Anne counted 1262 religious in 174 houses in places such as
Cameroon and the
Philippines; the general headquarters of the congregation is located in Rome. ==Beatification process==