CAPITANIO, BARTOLOMEA, beata. - Foundress of the Sisters of Charity, known as of the Holy Child Mary, or of the b. C., born at Lovere (Bergamo) on 13 February 1807, died there on 26 July 1833. Having entered at the age of eleven the boarding school of the Poor Clares of her native town, she felt a vocation for teaching; and, having returned to her family in 1824, she opened in her father's house a school for the instruction of youth, making of teaching an apostolate. Nor was her work limited to this, for, when the hospital of Lovere was inaugurated in 1826, C. devoted herself to it actively both in the functions of directress and housekeeper, to which she had been called, and in the care of the sick.

She conceived the grand project of a charitable institution that was to extend as much into the field of education as into that of charity. Having indeed consecrated herself entirely to God, on 21 November 1832, together with the b. Vincenza Gerosa (v.) she began the work and opened the first house of the new Congregation, which was approved by Gregory XVI on 5 June 1840. Declared venerable by Pius IX on 8 March 1866, she was beatified by Pius XI on 30 May 1926. She was to be canonized on 22 May 1950.

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BIBL.: I. Mazza, Vita e scritti della ven. C., 5 voll., Modena 1905; A. Tamborini, La ven. C., Torino 1922; Anon., La b. B. C., 2nd ed., Venezia 1926.

Niccolò Del Re

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