Caroline Carré de Malberg

Caroline-Barbe Colchen Carré de Malberg (8 April 1829 - 28 January 1891) was a French Roman Catholic from Metz who founded both the Salesian Missionaries of Mary Immaculate and the Association of Saint Francis de Sales. She married in 1849 to her first cousin and co-founded the association with the Servant of God Henri Chaumont and the missionaries with the Servant of God Félice Gros.

Her beatification process commenced in 1909 under Pope Pius X and culminated in 2014 after Pope Francis named her Venerable following the recognition of her life of heroic virtue.

Life Caroline-Barbe Colchen Carré de Malberg was born on 8 April 1829 in France to as the second child to the middle-class Françcois Dominique Colchen Victor and Élisabeth-Charlotte Simon. The apostolic process opened in both Metz and Paris and spanned from 1911 until 1912. The Congregation of Rites validated the process on 18 December 1929.

The formal introduction of the cause came under Pope Pius X on 23 June 1909. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints took possession of the positio dossier in 1997 and sent it to the team of historians to determine whether or not obstacles existed that would impede upon the progression of the cause; the historians voted in favor of the cause on 6 March 2001 while passing it onto consulting theologians a decade later on 16 March 2012 for their own assent. The Congregation voted in favor of the cause on 21 January 2014. Colchen was proclaimed to be venerable - on 9 May 2014 - after Pope Francis recognized that she had lived life of heroic virtue. The postulator assigned to the cause is the Rev. José Carlos Briñón Dominguez.