Saint Mary Goretti

July 6th XX century

Saint María Goretti, Virgin and martyr, in a hard childhood, where she saw the need to help her mother in the work of the House, distinguished for her piety, when she was no more than twelve years died in defense of their chastity from injuries that produced a young man who was trying to punch her and rape her when she was alone at home close to the town of Nettuno, in Lazio, Italy. Roman martyrology