Beatificazione di Giulia Nemesia Valle (1847-1916)

Roma 25 Aprile 2004

She was born in Aosta on June 26, 1847 in the same day she is baptized in the ancient collegiate of Sant'Orso. The first years of her life flow in the serenity of a family cheered by the birth of another child - Vincent - where the job of her mother that manages a shop of milliner and her father that develops an intense commercial activity, assures a certain comfort. But when Giulia was only four years old, her mother dies.

The two orphans are entrusted at first to the care of the fatherly relatives in Aosta, after to those maternal in Donnas. Here they find a serene environment; the school, the catechism and the preparation to the sacraments are made in the house, under the guide of a priest friend of family.

When Julia is eleven years old, to complete her education, is sent in France, to Besançon, in a pensioner held by the Nuns of the Charity. In Besançon she learns well the french, she enriches her culture, she becomes skilled in the female jobs, a delicate goodness that makes her agreeable and careful to the others matures.

After five years, Julia returns in her valley in Pont Saint Martin, in that period the Nuns of the Charity were established. Julia finds again her teachers of Besançon, that help her, encourage her. She observes their style of life given to God and the others and she chooses to be one of them. When her father presents her the proposal of a good marriage, Julia doesn't hesitate: she has promised that her life will be given all to God: she desires only to be Nun of the Charity.

At the end of the novitiate, with the religious suit she receives a new name: Sister Nemesia. This is the name of a martyr of the first centuries. She is sent to Tortona, to the institute San Vincenzo. She finds an elementary school, raced of culture, an orphanage. She teaches in the elementary school, and the French language in the superior class.

Her charity doesn't have limits. In Tortona they call her "our angel" The morning of May 10, 1903 she leaves alone at 4 of the morning after 36 years,,, from Borgaro, small country in the proximities of Turin, there is a group of young people that wait to be accompanied in a new walk, toward their total donation to God. They are the novices of the new provinces of the Nuns of the Charity.

The run of the life of Sister Nemesia draws near at the end. Thirteen years have passed by her arrival to Borgaro. Around five hundred novices have learned from her to walk on the paths of God. She has given all: the Lord now asks also her " to leave" to others "her novitiate". On December 18, 1916 Sister Nemesia dies. Beatified by Jhon Paul II on April 25, 2004 her body is revered in the church of the institute of Borgaro Torinese.