Born in Brescia in 1901, while still a student she devoted herself passionately to the activities of the Women's Youth of Catholic Action, which had also been established in Brescia a few years ago.

Thanks to a deep and rooted spirituality combined with a lively and engaging personality, Maria soon became one of the most esteemed activists. In 1935 she was nominated by the Bishop Mons. Giacinto Thirteen diocesan president of the Female Youth. In the course of her brief existence she gave a decisive impulse to the spread of CA among the young people of the diocese of Brescia, also dedicating herself to many charitable works. Stricken by a serious illness, she spent the last few months enduring her suffering with patience and self-sacrifice and showing virtue and Christian courage. Of her He died on December 2, 1944. To her, in 1943, to make it a center of training and spirituality of the Girls' Youth, her brother-in-law Eng. Carlo Viganò, president of Banca San Paolo, donated Villa Pace, an eighteenth-century manor house located in Gussago.

Maria Freschi's body rests in the chapel of Villa Pace, where it was transferred on 31 May 1964 from the Gussago cemetery.

from site Villa Pace