Maria Goretti Art Print Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):11x14 Black Frame (C) Copyright Sue Kouma Johnson

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He had tried to win her for his wife with rich gifts and promises

This beautiful

the Governor

she arranged for the care of her children and became a Third Order Franciscan

Maria Goretti Art Print Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):11x14 Black Frame (C) Copyright Sue Kouma JohnsonSaint Maria Goretti was twelve when a young man tried to seduce her. Maria refused, and he stabbed her. As she lay dying in the hospital, she forgave him, and prayed that he would be with her in Heaven. He was at her canonization, after 27 years of imprisonment, a convert to the faith by Maria's prayers. He gave evidence for her canonization, and became a Capuchin lay brother. She is a Patroness of Youth, and because her attacker was a pornography