Découvrez la bouleversante histoire de Sainte Maria Goretti, martyre italienne de 11 ans, canonisée en 1950. Elle a résisté à la violence, a défendu sa foi et sa pureté, et a pardonné à son meurtrier avant de mourir. Un exemple puissant de courage, de foi, et de pardon.
🎥 Dans cette vidéo : • Son enfance pauvre et pieuse • Le drame de son agression • Ses derniers mots, son pardon • La conversion d’Alessandro • Sa canonisation historique à Saint-Pierre • Et son message pour aujourd’hui
00:06These words from a dying eleven-year-old girl shocked the whole world.
00:13Maria Goretti was born in 1890 into a poor family in Italy.
00:20From childhood, she shone with her simple faith, her purity and her generosity.
00:26At eleven years old, she was already taking care of her younger brothers and sisters, praying the rosary every day and working hard at singing to help her widowed mother.
00:38But a terrible drama is brewing.
00:42A twenty-year-old young man, Alessandro Serenelli, the son of her neighbor, repeatedly tries to abuse her.
00:50Maria resists, telling him, "No! It's a sin! You'll go to hell!"
00:57On July 5, 1902, he attempted to rape her.
01:02She struggles, screams.
01:04Mad with rage, he stabbed her fourteen times.
01:08Taken to hospital, Maria survived for another twenty-four hours.
01:12In suffering, she remains calm.
01:16And most importantly, she says, "I forgive him and I want him to come with me to heaven."
01:24This forgiveness upsets the doctors and later converts his assassin himself.
01:30Alessandro in prison sees Maria in a dream.
01:33She hands him flowers.
01:35Broken, he cries, converts and ends his life as a Franciscan monk.
01:42Canonized in 1950 in front of more than 500,000 people,
01:49Saint Maria Goretti becomes one of the youngest saints in the Church.
01:54Today she is the patron saint of youth, purity,
01:58victims of assault and repentant criminals.
02:02His message is simple, burning, eternal.
02:08Forgiveness is stronger than hatred.
02:10Saint Maria Goretti, pray for us.
02:15Teach us to love, to resist evil and to forgive, even in pain.
