Saint Maria Goretti (Paperback)

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Independently Published, 2026

9798178437308

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Paperback. She was 12. He stabbed her 14 times because she said No.She forgave him while she was dying.He became her brother.---July 5, 1902, Ferriere di Conca, Italy. A broken farmhouse in a malarial swamp. Maria Goretti, barefoot, illiterate, the daughter of a destitute widow, is mending a shirt.Alessandro Serenelli, 20, enters with a rusted awl. He has tried twice before. This time he will not fail.Maria's answer has become immortal: **"No! It is a sin! God does not want it!"**He leaves her bleeding on the floor. She dies 24 hours later - not cursing him, but praying for him: **"I forgive him for the love of Jesus, and I want him to be with me in Paradise."**What happened next should have been impossible.Alessandro goes to prison unrepentant. He is known as *il sasso* - the stone. Thirty years of hard labor cannot break him.Until one night in Cell 108, Maria appears in a dream, dressed in white, carrying fourteen lilies. She hands them to her killer. They burst into flame in his hands - and do not burn him.The stone cracks.He walks out of prison 27 years later, falls to his knees in the dirt before Maria's mother, and begs: "Can you ever forgive me?"She answers: "My Marietta forgave you. How can I not?"On June 24, 1950, Pope Pius XII declares Maria Goretti a Saint before 500,000 people - the largest canonization in history. In the crowd, weeping openly, in a Capuchin habit too big for him, is Alessandro Serenelli. The murderer has come to the canonization of his victim.This is not a sweet story for little girls.This is a war story for 2026.For every teenager whose phone sells what Maria died to protect.For every person told purity is impossible and forgiveness is weakness.For every prisoner - behind bars or in your own mind - who thinks he is beyond mercy.**FROM PRISONER TO PILGRIM** to **SAINT OF TODAY**, this book will put fourteen burning lilies in your hands and ask you the two questions that made a saint and saved a killer: Can you say **No - for the love of Jesus?**Can you say **I forgive you - and I want you with me in Paradise?**Her body lies incorrupt in Nettuno. Her spirit is alive wherever a No sets someone free, and a forgiveness breaks a chain.The lilies are on fire.They are waiting for you. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
Saint Maria Goretti (Paperback)
Autore
REV David Harrington
Editore
Independently Published
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 13
9798178437308

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