Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi
Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi was born in Catania on 12 January 1880. He enrolled in the Faculty of Law at La Sapienza University and graduated on 14 July 1902. During his studies (1901) he met Maria Corsini and, after three years of dating, he entered into a private engagement with her on 15 March 1905, which was made official on the 30th of the same month.
In August 1905 he was appointed Honorary Vice-Prector at the Urban Prefecture, and in November, on the 25th, he married Maria Corsini in the basilica of S. Maria Maggiore. Four children were born of their union: the first Filippo in 1906 (later Fr Tarcisio), the second Stefania in 1908 (later to become Sr Cecilia), the third Cesare in 1909 (also a religious, with the name of Fr Paolino) and the fourth Enrichetta on 6 April 1914.
In 1909, Luigi was appointed Deputy State Advocate General; in 1919 he was Deputy State Advocate General; in 1921 Secretary General. He retired in 1946 with the title of Honorary Deputy Advocate General of the State. He also carried out numerous official assignments at various ministries, ENPAS state employees, and legal consultancy for IRI, Banca d’Italia, Banca Commerciale Italiana, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Consorzio per le Opere Pubbliche, and STET.
Despite his work and family commitments, Luigi devoted himself to a fruitful apostolate and took part in Catholic associations. He died on 9 November 1951, in Via Depretis, of a myocardial infarction.
For those who knew him, he was an affable, true, essential, learned, convinced person. He was endowed with an exceptional human charm that divine grace had enriched and completed. A splendid example of family and professional dedication, he was able to faithfully correspond to God’s plan for him, basing his life on the values of the Christian faith.
Characteristic of his existence was his daily focus on deepening the presence of God, until he reached a significant spiritual maturity, working, with consistency and solicitude, for his own salvation and that of those he met in his professional relations: sanctifying himself in order to sanctify.
Maria Corsini
She was born in Florence on 24 June 1884 to Angiolo Corsini and Giulia Salvi. Her parents gave her a thorough moral education, mainly through example. In her childhood and adolescence, she showed herself to be an unblemished child in her behaviour, judicious, obedient and inclined to piety. In the capital she attended primary school at the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny (3rd grade) and at the state school (4th and 5th grade). On 30 September 1897 she received her First Communion. For high school she attended the Girls’ Institute of Commerce for Headmistresses and Accountants, until she obtained her baccalaureate. Diligent and studious, she was particularly gifted in literary disciplines. In 1901 she met Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi.
Already in 1914, following the Avezzano earthquake, she did her best to assist the wounded. In the same year, she began catechesis for women in the parish of S. Vitale. In 1915, she morally and spiritually helped First World War soldiers hospitalised in the various hospitals in Rome. In 1917 she became a Franciscan Tertiary and in 1919 was received into the Congregation of the Ladies of the Immaculate. In 1920, she joined the ranks of the Central Council of Women’s Catholic Action and became an effective member of the Central Secretariat.
From 1922, the year in which three vocations were announced in the Beltrame Quattrocchi household, Maria would follow the choice of consecrated life of her three children Filippo, Cesare and Stefania until her last breath, with a true maternal priesthood.
A laywoman, wife and mother, with a deep interior life, she spent her days in the faithful and daily fulfilment of her duties and in the tasks proper to a generous commitment to the lay apostolate, in perfect adherence to the hierarchy and in a profound spirit of service. In other words, she generously and admirably confessed Christ in every circumstance of her life, in the condition of bride, mother and apostle, allowing God to shine naturally in her.
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