You are invited to go deeper into the lives of the saints this month! We have five emails that share a reflection on, and a prayer to, some of the amazing saints we honor this month.
Maria Teresa Goretti is an Italian virgin-martyr who resisted and forgave the man who attacked her.
Born in 1890, Maria warded off a man who attempted to rape her at the age of 12, concerned more for the purity and state of her victimizer's soul. Stabbed fourteen times, Maria died the next day, forgiving her attacker, Alessandro Serenelli.
Alessandro experienced a conversion to Christ during his 30-year prison sentence and was present in Rome when Maria was canonized a saint.
"I hope for salvation, since I have a saint in heaven praying for me," he said.
St. Maria Goretti, pray for us!