Feast Day
Goretti's feast day, celebrated on July 6, was inserted in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints for the first time when it was revised in 1969. Maria is the patron saint of chastity, rape victims, girls, youth, teenage girls, poverty, purity and forgiveness.
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Famous quotes containing the words feast and/or day:
“They have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)