Word: goretti
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...here have done so in large part because of the countless opportunities and tolerance of these societies. The article criticized an entire continent for misunderstandings and occasional prejudice. Ridiculous. If people believed they would encounter cruelty in Europe, they would not go to such great lengths to come here. Goretti Mello Brooks, LONDON...
...Rome last week, for the first time in history, a mother heard her daughter canonized a saint. In a place of special honor near the papal throne, 86-year-old Assunta Goretti sat with her two sons and two daughters and wept. "My daughter, my daughter," she cried. "My little Marietta...
...Maria Goretti, daughter of poor sharecroppers on the Pontine marshes south of Rome, was eleven years old. When 19-year-old Alessandro Serenelli tried to rape her, she resisted him, even though he stabbed her to death. As she lay dying, Maria forgave Serenelli and promised to pray for him in heaven. Serenelli served 27 penitent years in prison for his crime and is now a handyman and pig-tender at a Capuchin monastery. There last week he spent the day of Maria's canonization "in prayer more intense than ever...
...famed white portable, a speech of welcome in Spanish-his pet language-to Uruguay's new Minister to the Holy See, Alfredo Carbonell Debali. But for the most part, Pius worked last week on a long, careful speech to be delivered at the beatification of Maria Goretti, constantly checking and consulting books and scriptures from the Vatican library to supply the many references and quotations...
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