#Maria Goretti

[cheerfullycatholic]

I've seen multiple Catholic men online who have St. Maria Goretti as their confirmation saint and I think that's so cool!!! And very interesting that it's happened more than a couple of times. Hmmmmmmmmm okay wait

I don't like asking this because you have a right to not put anything on your blog you don't want there but just this one time if you wanna could you please reblog this for more reach? 🥺 Thankies if you do

[rmelster]

27 seven years later, Alessandro Serenelli (of twenty one years of age when he killed Maria Goretti) was freed from prison, was granted the forgiveness of Maria’s mother, and entered in a Cappucin monastery. He was said to often pray for her soul.

And I hope every night of his life he spent it restless with horrid, horrid dreams of what he did.

[fentanyl-rabbits]

Religious pages from my journals

[monasteryicons]

An icon of purity and forgiveness

Over 500,000 people from around the world gathered for Saint Maria’s canonization in Rome in 1950 – a testimony to the impact that her story and example had and still has on countless Christians.

Born in Italy in 1890, Saint Maria grew up in a family of poor sharecroppers. The family's search for work led them to the western coast of Italy, where shortly after her father died of malaria.

A struggle to the death

Her 19-year-old neighbor Allesandro became infatuated with the young girl and propositioned her several times, to no avail. On July 5, 1902 he could control himself no longer and made sexual advances to the young girl, who struggled as he strangled her and rebuffed him shouting "No! It is sin! God does not want it!" Allesandro's lust transformed to violent anger and he stabbed Maria fourteen times with a long knife.

“Father, forgive them…”

Doctors struggled in vain to save her life. She underwent surgery without anesthesia, and halfway through the surgery woke up. She insisted it stay that way. The hospital pharmacist asked Maria "Think of me in Paradise." "Who knows which of us is going to be there first," she said, looking at the old man. "You, Maria," he replied. "Then I will gladly think of you," she said. After twenty painful hours of suffering during which she forgave and prayed for her attacker, Maria passed to heavenly life fortified by the Last Sacraments, her last earthly gaze resting upon a picture of the Blessed Virgin.

One of the youngest canonized saints of the Catholic Church, Maria was pronounced a saint by Pope Pius XII fifty years later in 1950. Saint Maria's mother and her murderer attended the canonization ceremony together. Calling her a "Saint Agnes of the 20th century," the pope proposed her as a patroness of modern youth, and since then she has been venerated as icon of purity and the patron of young women and victims of rape. Half a million people attended the ceremony outside of Saint Peter's Basilica, When the pope asked them, "Young people, are you determined to resist any attack on your chastity with the help of the grace of God?" the resounding answer was "YES!"

A murderer repents

After thirty years of hard labor, Allesandro was released and visited Maria's mother, asking her pardon and accompanying her to Christmas Mass in the parish church where before the hushed congregation he acknowledged his sin and asked God's forgiveness and the pardon of the community. He became a laybrother at a Capuchin monastery, working as its receptionist and gardener until his death in 1970.

Her feast day is July 6th. Monastery Icons’ icon of Saint Maria is available in our full range of formats and sizes – plaques and prints from 4 inches to 5 feet tall.

[cristianesimocattolico]

Maria Regina è bellissima perché purissima

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (July 6)

July 6 marks the feast day of St. Maria Goretti, a young virgin and martyr whose life is an example of purity and mercy for all Christians.

St. Maria Goretti is best known for her commitment to purity and the courageous defence of her faith at the young age of eleven that made her willing to undergo death rather than participate in a sin against God.

She is also remarkable for the forgiveness she willingly granted her attacker as she lay on her deathbed.

Maria was born on 16 October 1890 in Corinaldo, Italy. Her father, a farmer, died of malaria when she was young, and her mother had to work to support their six children.

Maria took care of the younger children while her mother worked. She prayed the Rosary every night for the repose of her father’s soul.

She grew in grace and maturity. Her cheerful obedience and piety were noticed by those around her.

On 5 July 1902, a neighbouring farm hand, Alessandro Serenelli, tried to rape Maria.

On several prior occasions, Alessandro had harassed Maria with impure advances, all of which she has vehemently rejected.

This time, he locked her in a room and tried to force himself upon her.

She fought against him, shouting, "No! It is a sin! God does not want it!"

She warned him that this was the path towards hell.

When Maria declared that she would rather die than submit to this sin, Alessandro angrily grabbed her and stabbed her 14 times with a knife.

Maria was found bleeding to death and rushed to the hospital.

As she lay dying, she forgave Alessandro for the crime he had committed against her, saying:

"Yes, for the love of Jesus, I forgive him...and I want him to be with me in Paradise."

Although the doctors tried to save her, she died two agonizing days later, only eleven years old.

Alessandro was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

He remained unrepentant until one night, eight years into his prison term, when Maria appeared to him, dressed in white, gathering lilies in a garden.

She smiled, turned towards Alessandro, and offered him the flowers. Each lily he took transformed into a white flame. Then Maria disappeared.

From that moment, Alessandro converted and found peace. He repented of his crime and changed his life.

He was released from prison three years early and begged forgiveness from Maria’s mother, which she duly granted.

Alessandro moved to a Capuchin monastery, working in the garden as a tertiary for the remainder of his life.

He was one of the witnesses who testified to Maria's holiness during her cause of beatification, citing the crime and the vision in prison.

Many miracles were attributed to Maria Goretti after her death.

Pope Pius XII beatified her on 27 April 1947 and canonized on 24 June 1950, becoming the youngest Roman Catholic saint officially recognised by name.

Her feast day is celebrated by the Church on July 6.

She is the patron saint of purity, rape victims, young women, and youth in general.

On her feast day in 2003, Pope John Paul II spoke about St. Maria Goretti at his Sunday Angelus, noting that her life provides an exemplary witness of what it means to be "pure of heart."

"What does this fragile but christianly mature girl say to today's young people, through her life and above all through her heroic death?" asked the Pope.

"Marietta, as she was lovingly called, reminds the youth of the third millennium that true happiness demands courage and a spirit of sacrifice, refusing every compromise with evil and having the disposition to pay personally, even with death, faithful to God and his commandments."

"How timely this message is," the Holy Father continued.

"Today, pleasure, selfishness and directly immoral actions are often exalted in the name of the false ideals of liberty and happiness.

It is essential to reaffirm clearly that purity of heart and of body go together, because chastity ‘is the custodian’ of authentic love."

[hungryfictions]

this book is truly insane, here are the cocktails for some of my favorite girlies ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

Saint Joan of Arc

Maiden’s Blush 2 oz. gin 1/2 tsp. triple sec 1/2 tsp. grenadine 1/2 tsp. lemon juice Pour ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into a cocktail glass.

French 75 1 1/2 oz. gin 1/2 oz. lemon juice 2 tsp. simple syrup 5 oz. brut champagne lemon twist Pour gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into a champagne flute/tulip and top with champagne. Garnish with lemon.

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Love in an Elevator 1 oz. gin 1/2 oz. green curaçao liqueur 2 1/2 oz. ginger ale (chilled) Pour gin and curaçao into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into a cocktail glass and add ginger ale.

Saint Lucy

Santa Lucia Martini 2 oz. gin 1 dash vermouth 2 olives Pour all ingredients except olives into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into a cocktail glass. Transfix the two olives with a cocktail sword so that the pimentos are positioned like eyeballs, and place them horizontally on the glass rim.

Lucie Cocktail 3/4 oz. lime juice 3/4 oz. light rum 3/4 oz. Grand Marnier 1/4 oz. orange curaçao Pour all ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Stain into a cocktail glass rimmed with sugar.

Saint Maria Goretti

Sweet Maria 1 1/2 oz. cream 3/4 oz. amaretto 3/4 oz. vodka Pour ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Mary Magdalene

Madelaine Cocktail 1 oz. cognac 3/4 oz. Drambuie 3/4 oz. dry vermouth Pour ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Saint Rose of Lima

Inca Cocktail 3/4 oz. gin 3/4 oz. sherry 1/2 oz. dry vermouth 1/2 oz. sweet vermouth 1 dash orgeat or almond syrup 1 dash orange or Angostura bitters Pour ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Pisco Sour (Original Peruvian Version) 2 oz. Peruvian pisco brandy 1 oz. lemon or lime juice 3/4 oz. simple syrup 1 egg white 1 dash Angostura bitters Pour all ingredients except bitters into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into an old fashioned glass (without ice) and sprinkle bitters on the foamy top of the drink.

[the-mercy-workers]

On St. Maria Goretti's feast day, let's not forget the immense love she had for her killer, Alessandro, that even while on her death bed she wanted him in Heaven with her. Lord, help us all to be as loving and forgiving as she was

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Maria Goretti

1890 - 1902

Feast day: July 6 (New), July 9 (Trad)

Patronage: Crime victims, teenage girls, modern youth, Children of Mary

Maria Goretti is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Roman Catholic Church and is one of its youngest canonized saints. She died from multiple stab wounds inflicted by her attempted rapist after she refused to submit to him.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[mourningmaybells]

I remember a distressing amount of Roman Catholic patron saints for someone who never prays for help anymore. got tired of hearing the disconnect tone on the other end

[essence-of-femininity]

"He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant."

St. Maria Goretti

[little-bunny-in-space]

Today is the feast day of St. Maria Goretti!

She’s been a patron saint of mine since I read of her. Our stories are alike but she was braver than I. Today I cry to her for intercession, and to the Lord to hear my pleas and free me from my attacker.

St. Maria Goretti, pray for us!

[momentsbeforemass]

Poison

“I forgive him and want him to be in paradise with me some day.”

Those are the last words of St. Maria Goretti (today’s saint).

She said that as she was dying from multiple stab wounds. She said that about Alessandro Serenelli, the man who stabbed her multiple times after she fought off his attempt to rape her.

Sound familiar? It should. It’s an echo of what Jesus said from the cross. As He was dying. “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

I don’t know about you, but that makes me feel small and petty.

As I replay in my mind a former boss lying to me. As I nurse a grudge against people who treated me like a thing and not a person during formation. As I hold on to my grievances against way too many people who have wronged me. Even though most of that stuff happened years ago.

Sadly, I’m not alone. Most of us do the same thing with the wrongs that we’ve suffered.

We keep them around, replaying them in our minds, revisiting them time and again. Keeping the wounds fresh. Letting them hurt us all over again.

Letting the harms of the past poison our future. By dwelling on them. Refreshing them with our time and our thoughts.

Damaging our relationships by letting them grow up between us and others. By letting them grow up between us and God. Instead of forgiving the person who wronged us.

But it’s so hard to forgive them, to let go of what they did. Which is why we need to be clear about forgiveness.

Forgiveness is not about ignoring what they did. Forgiveness is not about pretending that it didn’t hurt. Forgiveness is not about leaving yourself vulnerable to being hurt by them again.

Forgiveness is not something that you do because the person who wronged you deserves it. Forgiveness is not about them at all.

Forgiveness is about you. Forgiveness is about not giving them any more power over you. Forgiveness is about not letting what they did hurt you again.

Forgiveness is about not letting what they did grow up between you and others. Forgiveness is about not letting what they did grow up between you and God.

That is why Maria Goretti forgave her murderer, as she was dying.

Even though she had every reason not to forgive. Attempted rape, then murder. Followed by emergency surgery without anesthesia that wasn’t able to save her. It’s hard to imagine a much more horrible wrong.

But Maria was focused – not on what had been done to her – but on where she was going. She was not about to let anything come between her and God. No matter what.

Because that’s what happens when we don’t forgive. Whether it happens in the dramatic and horrifying way that it did for Maria Goretti. Or in the dull, everyday way that it so often happens for us. The end result is the same.

When you and I fail to forgive, we give the person who wronged us power over us. We let what they did and how it hurt us grow. When we do, it will keep growing. Until it comes between us and others. Until it comes between us and God.

The choice is ours, and the consequences are eternal.

Through the intercession of Saint Maria Goretti, may God grant us the grace of forgiveness and the freedom that comes from that grace.

Today’s Readings

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Modern Saint Bracket Announcement

Instead of waiting until Sunday, the modern bracket will open immediately after the post-schism bracket is over. This is the modern bracket, which will be followed by a final four, and then there will be even MORE polls (losers' brackets, Marian apparitions, we're going all summer baby.)

Catholic Saint Tournament Modern Bracket Round 1 Pairings:

St Therese of Lisieux vs St Elizabeth Ann Seton

St Padre Pio (of Pietrelcina) vs St Charles de Foucauld

St Maximilian Kolbe vs St Benilde Romancon

St John Bosco vs St John Neumann

St Mother Teresa (of Calcutta) vs St Arnold Janssen

St Jacinta Marto vs St Edith Stein

St Maria Goretti vs St Marianne Cope

St Charles Lwanga (& co) vs St John Vianney

St Oscar Romero vs St Josemaria Escriva

St Bernadette vs St Damian of Molokai

St Faustina vs St Catherine Laboure

St Mary MacKillop vs St Katharine Drexel

St Gemma Galgani vs St Frances Xavier Cabrini

St John Henry Cardinal Newman vs Pope St John Paul II

Pope St John XXIII vs St Mark Ji Tianxiang

St Francisco Marto vs Sts Louis & Zelie Martin (package deal)

You can still submit nominations for beatified folks, propaganda for your favorite saints, or other thoughts in the ask box! Or suggestions for future polls, questions, etc.

May the best saint win!

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