St. Maria Goretti (1890-1902) was unusual at the time of her canonization and remains — as holiness always is — a sign of contradiction today. She was canonized in 1950. Until St. John Paul II’s ...

On this day we remember St. Maria Goretti, the eleven-year-old girl who was stabbed to death by nineteen-year-old Alessandro Serenelli as he attempted to rape her. She died of the fourteen stab wounds ...

On July 6 we commemorate the feast of St. Maria Goretti, one of the youngest canonized saints in the Catholic Church’s history. She was 11 years old at the time of her death. In March 2015, Pope ...

Next week, Blessed Trinity Catholic Church will host the remains of St. Maria Goretti, the Catholic Church’s youngest saint, who died a martyr in 1902 in Nettuno, Italy, at age 11, after she fended ...

Hundreds of people lined the sidewalks around St. Monica Catholic Church in Dallas Tuesday to see the relics of St. Maria Goretti. The relics of St. Maria Goretti are on display in Dallas is part of a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Thousands of Catholics gathered to witness a first in Chicago. The relic of St. Maria Goretti, the youngest canonized saint, is on display at St. Cantius Church in the city's Goose ...

CENTER CITY (WPVI) -- People lined the sidewalk down the block Wednesday waiting to see the major relics of Saint Maria Goretti. At the National Shrine of Saint Rita of Cascia on South Broad Street, a ...

TYLER, TX (KLTV) - Thousands of East Texans journeyed to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Tyler this week to venerate the youngest saint ever canonized. The major remains of Maria Goretti ...

BRUISES. BACK HERE IN NEW ORLEANS, FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS ARE PENDING FOR LONG-TIME SAINT MARIA GORETTI PASTOR MONSIGNOR EARL GAUTHREAUX. A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS TELLS US HE ...

Welcomed by crowds of teary-eyed faithful, the remains of St. Maria Goretti, the youngest saint canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, arrived in Chicago at dawn Monday, with law enforcement officers ...