Giulia Valle, SCSJA (26 June 1847 – 18 December 1916) was an Italian Catholic nun and a professed member of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joan Antida Thouret.
She was sent to France at the age of eleven in 1858 where she studied in Besançon with the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joan Antida Thouret where she learnt to master the French language and the piano.
[1] Valle felt a strong call to religious life and when her father had begun to arrange a marriage for her it forced her hand.
As a result of this she decided once and for all that she would go down the path of a religious and so began her novitiate at the Convent of Santa Margherita in Vercelli on 8 September 1866; her father accompanied her there.
After her profession, she was sent to the Institute of Saint Vincent in 1866 at Tortona and taught general studies to children and the French language at the high school level.
[citation needed] Upon the completion of both processes the postulation compiled the Positio – a large dossier consisting of biographical details attesting to the pros of her cause – in 1994 and submitted it to Rome for their own investigation.
This culminated on 5 July 2002 when Pope John Paul II proclaimed her to be Venerable upon acknowledging that Valle had indeed lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue.