Thousands lined up Saturday and Sunday at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church to see the small glass case holding the remains of Saint Maria Goretti. The case arrived Saturday carrying the relics of the ...

NASHUA — The major relics of St. Maria Goretti will be displayed and venerated at Immaculate Conception Church on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 3 and 4. “I am delighted that Immaculate Conception Church ...

There are three sites related to the life of St. Maria Goretti that can be visited today: Corinaldo, Colle Gianturco and Nettuno. The birth house of St. Maria Goretti can be visited in the farmland in ...

St. Maria Goretti, whose feast is celebrated on July 6, is one of the youngest canonized saints in the Catholic Church. Her powerful testimony of forgiveness shows how someone’s life can dramatically ...

Maria Goretti was born on Oct. 16, 1890. She was also born into poverty. At that time her peasant parents were like so many others then living in remote parts of Italy. Hard work in even harsher ...

You held back my body from the pit, and delivered my foot from the power of Sheol. -Sirach 51: 1-2 It is 1961, and the author and essayist Pietro Di Donato is lying on a bed in a room at the Capuchin ...