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

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This beautiful

At a very young age

She's always there to help

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