The pilgrimage of St. Maria Goretti in the United States has drawn huge crowds wherever she stops. It has skyrocketed new interest and devotion to her. Just in time comes a new book called The Life ...

On July 6 we commemorate the feast of St. Maria Goretti, one of the youngest canonized saints in the Catholic Church’s history. She was 11 years old at the time of her death. In March 2015, Pope ...

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 ...

On this day we remember St. Maria Goretti, the eleven-year-old girl who was stabbed to death by nineteen-year-old Alessandro Serenelli as he attempted to rape her. She died of the fourteen stab wounds ...

PHILADELPHIA >> Hundreds of people made the trek to view the skeletal remains of the youngest canonized saint in the Roman Catholic church, St. Maria Goretti, which made a stop at St. Rita of Cascia ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Thousands of Catholics gathered to witness a first in Chicago. The relic of St. Maria Goretti, the youngest canonized saint, is on display at St. Cantius Church in the city's Goose ...

NORTHLAKE, Ill. (WLS) -- The sacred remains of St. Maria Goretti, the youngest canonized saint in the Catholic Church, moved to a church in northwest suburban Northlake. The faithful can visit the ...

Born into a poor peasant family of six children at the end of the 19th century in Italy, Maria Goretti's life was difficult from the beginning. Her family worked as farm hands and the children had to ...