St. Maria Goretti, whose feast is celebrated on July 6, is one of the youngest canonized saints in the Catholic Church. Her powerful testimony of forgiveness shows how someone’s life can dramatically ...
July 6 is the feast of St. Maria Goretti, an Italian girl who fought off an attempt at rape in 1902 and paid for it with her life. Pope Pius XII canonized her in 1950. I’ll admit that, every time July ...
St. Maria Goretti (1890-1902) was unusual at the time of her canonization and remains — as holiness always is — a sign of contradiction today. She was canonized in 1950. Until St. John Paul II’s ...
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