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	St.Maria Goretti...pray for us!
		Maria Goretti is born in Corinaldo, Italy to Luigi Goretti and Assunta Carlini.
		Maria is mortally wounded at 15.30 by her neighbor, Alessandro Serenelli, who attacked her with intent to sexually abuse her.
		Maria is beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.
	www.mariagoretti.org /mariabio.htm (568 words)

	St. Maria Goretti and the Virtue of Purity
		Maria was aged eight and a half when the family settled in Ferriere; and she would appear to have been an unusually serious-minded and pious child from the start.
		Maria Goretti's radiant purity impressed all with whom she came in contact from the start; and it was this very quality that struck her subsequent murderer most of all.
		Maria Goretti's "frame of reference" was a Christian one; and within it she learned that "impurity" leads to the death of the soul.
	www.sspxafrica.com /documents/2002_May/St_Maria_Goretti.htm (1336 words)

	SAINT MARIA GORETTI
		Maria Goretti was born in 1890 at Corinaldo, a village in the north of Italy.
		Maria kept her fears to herself, and Assunta did not suspect that the nineteen-year-old Alessandro regarded her daughter as anything but a twelve-year-old child.
		Maria was carried quickly to the hospital at Nettuno, but it was evident that she could not live.
	www.stfrancisvernon.org /stmariagoretti.htm (870 words)

	Lives of the Saints, July 9, Saint Maria Goretti
		Saint Maria Goretti, born in October, 1890 in the small hilltop village of Corinaldo near Ancône, was the second of the six living children of a very pious poor family.
		Maria, nine years old and deeply affected by her father’s death, seconded her mother’s labor in the fields by taking over the care of her four younger brothers and sisters.
		Maria replied that in the town a lady who knew how to read would teach her, and on Sundays she could go to a village where the priest taught catechism to all the children, and she was sure that God in His providence would care for her material needs.
	magnificat.ca /cal/engl/07-09.htm (829 words)

	St Maria Goretti, Virgin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		St Maria Goretti was born in 1890 at Corinaldo, a village in the north of Italy.
		St Maria Goretti kept her fears to herself, and Assunta did not suspect that the nineteen-year-old Alessandro regarded her daughter as anything but a twelve-year-old child.
		St Maria Goretti was carried quickly to the hospital at Nettuno, but it was evident that she could not live.
	www.the-catholic-saint-site.com /st-maria-goretti.html (901 words)

	Maria Goretti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maria's toddler sister Teresa, who was taking a nap, awoke with the noise and started crying, and when Alessandro's father and Maria's mother came to check on the little girl they found the bleeding Maria and took her to the nearest hospital in Nettuno.
		On June 24, 1950, Pope Pius XII canonized Saint Maria Goretti as a virgin and martyr saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
		Maria's mother, nicknamed "Mama Assunta" by her neighbors, was present at the ceremony; she was the first mother ever to attend the canonization ceremony of her child, along with her four remaining sons and daughters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maria_Goretti (541 words)

	St. Maria Goretti and her Murderer, Alessandro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Maria Goretti gave her life defending her purity rather than to yield to the sinful desires of a young man driven by anger and lust.
		Maria Goretti, known affectionately to her family and friends as Marietta, was born in Italy in the year 1890 into a poor family near Nettuno, 20 miles outside of Rome.
		Maria was devout and pious, and attentive to prayer.
	credo.stormloader.com /Saints/stgoretti.htm (2318 words)

	SSPXAsia.com: St. Maria Goretti
		The canonisation of Maria Goretti was not based on a single moment's struggle against sin but upon her practice of heroic virtue through her entire short life.
		Maria was not a good cook but when rebuked for this fault, she simply begged pardon for not being able to cook as well as her mother.
		Maria's own mother, by that time an old woman, was present and the crowd was so huge that the ceremony had to be held outside, in front of St. Peter's basilica.
	www.sspxasia.com /Documents/Saints/St-Maria-Goretti.htm (3722 words)

	St. Maria Goretti
		Maria Goretti Catholic Parish School Statement of Philosophy
		The faculty and staff of St. Maria Goretti Catholic School share in the teaching ministry of our parish, to bring Christ's message to our students.
		As members of the St. Maria Goretti Catholic School Community, we embrace these responsibilities of our teaching ministry.
	www.stmariagoretti.org /school (210 words)

	Saint Maria Goretti \| Catholic-Pages.com
		On one day, Maria was sitting at the top of the stairs of their house, when a local boy named Alexander came into the house and seized her, attempting to violate the young girl of 12.
		Maria was sure to die, and in the company of her mother, her priest, a Spanish noblewoman, and two nuns stayed by her bed the whole night.
		He was unrepentent, but Maria camed to him in a vision, offering flowers to him in forgiveness, and he was a changed man. Alexander upon release went immediately to her mother to beg forgiveness.
	www.catholic-pages.com /saints/st_maria_goretti.asp (248 words)

	Saint Michael Center - Catholic Teachings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		To many, the story of Maria Goretti is already familiar as the story of a young girl who refused to acquiesce in a grave sin against chastity.
		The canonization of Maria Goretti was not based on a single moment’s struggle against sin, but upon her practice of heroic virtue through her entire short life.
		Maria’s story begins with her home, where the moral basis of her heroic choice was nurtured.
	www.smcenter.org /teachings_MARIA_GORETTI.htm (1748 words)

	Maria Goretti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Maria Goretti was born a poor peasant child in Italy in 1890, the third of six children.
		Maria's mother dutifully took her husband's place in the fields, while little Maria took her mother's role in caring for her siblings.
		In June of 1902, 20-year-old Alessandro Serenelli began ordering 11-year-old Maria to perform various difficult chores, none of which could be completed to his satisfaction, and she was often reduced to tears.
	www.davekopel.com /Religion/Maria-Goretti.htm (657 words)

	Catholic-Pages.com \| Discussion Forum - St. Maria Goretti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Maria was taken to a hospital, where she forgave her attacker and expressed concern for her family; she died about twenty-four hours later.
		Maria Goretti was born in a small village in Italy.When Maria was six years of age her parents worked as tenant farmers at Nettuna which is very close to Rome.
		Maria's mother and her brother, Angelo, heard her screams and came running from the fields and found Maria dying in a pool of blood.
	www.catholic-pages.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8516 (4705 words)

	McNichols Icons: St. Maria Goretti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Maria is the prematurely "old child" bearing heavy responsibilities because of the death of her father and the family's subsequent poverty.
		Maria is the "radiant child" bearing a dignity and prayerfulness beyond her years - a life that would attract both good and evil.
		Maria is the "abused child" determined to protect herself while being worn clown, stalked and threatened by a family friend.
	puffin.creighton.edu /jesuit/andre/maria_goretti.html (285 words)

	st maria goretti
		When he was released after 27 years he went directly to Maria's mother to beg her forgiveness, which she gave.
		When Maria was declared a saint in 1950, Alexander was there in the St. Peter's crowd to celebrate her canonization.
		Maria Goretti is the patroness of youth and for the victims of rape.
	www.livingwatercommunity.com /saiints/st_maria_goretti.htm (270 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Maria Goretti: Example For Young People
		St Maria Goretti was a girl whom God's Spirit endowed with the courage to stay faithful to her Christian vocation even to the point of making the supreme sacrifice of her life.
		Maria Goretti, born in Corinaldo in The Marches on 16 October 1890, was soon obliged to emigrate with her family, and after sometime they arrived at Le Ferriere di Conca in the Pontine Marshes.
		St Maria Goretti and the many adolescents who down through centuries paid the price of martyrdom for their allegiance to the Gospel, are beside them, to instil in their hearts the strength to remain firm in fidelity.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4414 (1245 words)

	Maria Alonzo Goretti Group
		Maria was also teaching for the nuns in Sydney, who encouraged her to study for a language degree at the Catholic University.
		In the seventies, Maria and The Gorettis organised a Folk Mass in church for the visitors from St Catharine's Ontario, with which Trinidad and Tobago is twinned.
		The Gorettis have travelled extensively throughout the Caribbean, United States and Canada, singing on invitation from the United Nations in New York, which led to "Moms" being presented with a Gold Peace Medal for her contribution to world peace for her involvement with youth and music.
	www.sputnick.com /angela/maria_alonzo_goretti_group.htm (722 words)

	Maria Goretti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		ary Goretti was born in Italy, near the city of Corinaldo, on October 16, 1890, christened on October 17, 1890 and devoted to the Immaculate Virgin Mary.
		he holiness of Mary Goretti is not just that she chose death above sin, but of all that gave her the strength to brave martyrdom; the practice of virtues in the family circle, the spirit of prayer and penance, the fiery piety to Mary and the Holy Eucharist and receiving of the Sacraments.
		Maria Goretti was twelve years old when she was put to the test - she knew already in the depths of her being that God was her highest and only good.
	www.marypages.com /gorettieng.htm (1953 words)

	St Maria Goretti
		It is possible to object that Maria Goretti acted almost reflexly in a state of acute panic to the kind of situation which she had been conditioned to regard as the most terrible that could be imagined, and that no heroic virtue could possibly have been realized.
		People like Maria Goretti--and martyrs for purity, even those who are willing to experience a little momentary emotional discomfort on its behalf, are few and far between--have an ever-present realization that lightly to surrender one's bodily integrity, even to the most compelling needs of the moment, upsets the whole rhythm of the universe.
		Perhaps that is the chief reason why the canonization of Maria Goretti at the height of the splendors of the last Holy Year strikes one as being particularly significant and timely.
	www.deaconlaz.org /Maria_Goretti.htm (541 words)

	St. Maria Goretti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		When Maria was given a treat from a neighbor or kind merchant, she would take it home to share with her brothers and sisters.
		Maria had to go frequently into a nearby village to sell produce and to buy supplies for her family.
		Maria Goretti gives us an example of self-sacrificing service to the family, heroic witness to the virtue of chastity and heroic witness to forgiveness of persecutors.
	www.monksofadoration.org /Goretti.html (641 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : July 06, 2006 : Maria Goretti
		The daughter of a poor peasant family, Maria was well known to her neighbors for her cheerfulness and piety.
		Maria Goretti was born of a poor family in Corinaldi, Italy, in 1890.
		Excerpted from a homily at the canonization of Saint Maria Goretti by Pope Pius XII.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2006-07-06 (660 words)

	Saint Maria Goretti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Maria, trapped alone in the kitchen, struggled to avoid sin; finally, forced to choose between death and sin, she chose death, and it was a terrible death.
		Maria was stabbed on the afternoon of the Vigil of the Precious Blood and died on the Feast Day.
		He retracted his story of the killing, swore that Maria was not only entirely innocent and died protecting her Virtue, but that during the attack she was concerned with the soul of her attacker.
	www.thesacredheart.com /sts/goretti.htm (601 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Maria Goretti
		Soon after, Maria's father died of malaria, and the family was forced to move onto the Serenelli farm to survive.
		In 1902 at age twelve, Maria was attacked by 19-year-old farm-hand Alessandro Serenelli.
		This vision of Maria led to Alessandro's conversion, and he later testified at her cause for beatification.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintm09.htm (557 words)

	Saints - Maria Goretti
		Maria Goretti is the patroness of youth, young women, purity, and victims of rape.
		Angrily Alessandro stabbed her to death, with Maria preferring to die rather than be raped.
		When he was released after 27 years he went directly to Maria's mother to beg her forgiveness, which she gave him.
	www.scborromeo.org /saints/maria.htm (674 words)

	The Little Lily of Purity - Story of Maria Goretti by Katherine Buckmaster
		Maria was horrified, and ran away before the troubled youth could force himself on her.
		Maria's mother noticed her daughter's unease at being left alone, but never suspected the real reason for it.
		Goretti and her daughter's murderer received Jesus in Communion side by side.
	www.wf-f.org /02-3-MariaGoretti.html (1329 words)

	Saint Maria Goretti [Martyr] [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Goretti forgave her assailant and prayed for him before she died, and she represents a saintly example for this reason, but in the situation she was in, neither a decision to resist nor a decision to give in would have been a sin.
		I think St. Maria Goretti is a good example to young women (young men too for that matter) of the preciousness of one's chastity.
		So you are not actually wrong about Maria, but this makes it even harder to understand why you reacted so strongly to my criticism of the statement that she was "forced to choose between death and sin".
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b464de40175.htm (1198 words)

	St. Maria Goretti
		Maria Goretti was born in Corinaldo, Italy to a poor farm family with six children.
		On July 5, 1902 12-year-old Maria was attacked in her home by 18-year-old Alessandro Serenelli, the son of her father's partner who lived in the Goretti home.
		Maria was canonized by Pope Pius XII in June, 1950.
	www.thepassionists.org /st_maria_goretti.html (149 words)

	The Story of Maria Goretti
		Alessandro was taken with Maria's beauty and had for some time tried to seduce her. He spoke obscenely to her, made lewd suggestions and threatened to kill Maria and her mother if she told anyone.
		Alessandro's father, asleep, did not hear Maria's shriek, but he woke up to the loud crying of the babies. He jumped up, found Maria in a pool of blood, and yelled wildly to the threshers.
		Maria Goretti is an excellent model and intercessor for today's Catholic youth, confronted by a sea of immorality poured out on the world by the modern media. She offers children and young people a refuge, protection, a serene spirit and the deep joy of the pure of heart.
	www.olrl.org /lives/goretti.shtml (352 words)

	Maria Goretti
		Saint Maria was born of a poor family at Corinaldi, Italy in 1890, the third of six children.
		Angry, Alessandro stabbed her to death, with Maria preferring to die rather than be raped.
		From a homily at the canonization of Saint Maria Goretti by Pope Pius XII
	www.ewtn.com /faith/goretti.htm (571 words)

	Santa Maria Goretti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Maria durante mas o menos este tiempo empezó a demostrar su inteligencia y madures tan grandes a pesar de su corta edad.
		La familia Goretti se había mudado a una especie de casa en la que tenían la cocina como un área común con la casa de Juan Serenelli.
		Maria rogó a su madre que no la dejara sola debido a la insistencia de Alejandro, pero su madre nunca imaginó que podría ocurrir; y Marieta estuvo procurando no quedarse sola de diferentes maneras.
	html.rincondelvago.com /santa-maria-goretti.html (625 words)

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