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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“If you want to feast on sea-dragon’s flesh, go down to the sea yourself.”
—Chinese proverb.
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The day of his death was a dark cold day.”
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