Word: serenelli
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...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...
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