[1] Ravasco devoted her entire life to the service of God and to aiding the poor and the sick across parishes in Genoa and in various hospitals.

Her mother died in 1848 and her father relocated to Genoa with two of his male children in order to find work.

It was around this time anti-clerical sentiment spread across the Italian peninsula and her brother Ambrose joined their forces - this alarmed their uncle Luigi.

[3] Ravasco was forced to assume the duties of head of the household after her uncle Luigi died in December 1862.

[2] Ravasco was promised in marriage to a marquis but she refused based on her calling though her relations did not protest though would have preferred she accepted the offer.

[4] She also began to teach catechism and help poor girls with the aid of her spiritual director and the priest Giuseppe Como.

Around this time - on 6 December 1868 - she established her new religious congregation (the Ravasco Institute) with the aid of Salvatore Magnasco.

On 1 July 2000 she was proclaimed to be Venerable after Pope John Paul II declared the fact that she had lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue.

The miracle needed for her beatification was investigated in the diocese of its origin and the process received validation on 17 October 1998 in Rome.

The pope approved the healing to be a legitimate miracle in 2002 and allowed for him to preside over Ravasco's beatification on 27 April 2003 in Saint Peter's Square.