Optional Memorial
Saint Maria Goretti
- Feast day
- July 06
- Patron of
- youth and victims of assault
- Origin
- Italian
Life
Maria Goretti was an eleven-year-old girl who was stabbed to death resisting an attempted sexual assault. On her deathbed, she forgave her attacker, who later attended her canonization.
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