ISBN: 9798178437308 - saint maria goretti: the saint who chose forgiveness - her life, martyrdom, and the miracle of mercy that converted her killer (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - She was 12. He stabbed her 14 times because she said No.She forgave him while she was dying.He became her brother.---July 5, 1902, Ferriere di Conca, Italy. A broken farmhouse in a malarial swamp. Maria Goretti, barefoot, illiterate, the daughter of a destitute widow, is mending a shirt.Alessandro Serenelli, 20, enters with a rusted awl. He has tried twice before. This time he will not fail.Maria's answer has become immortal: \*\*'No! It is a sin! God does not want it!'\*\*He leaves her bleeding on the floor. She dies 24 hours later - not cursing him, but praying for him: \*\*'I forgive him for the love of Jesus, and I want him to be with me in Paradise.'\*\*What happened next should have been impossible.Alessandro goes to prison unrepentant. He is known as \*il sasso\* - the stone. Thirty years of hard labor cannot break him.Until one night in Cell 108, Maria appears in a dream, dressed in white, carrying fourteen lilies. She hands them to her killer. They burst into flame in his hands - and do not burn him.The stone cracks.He walks out of prison 27 years later, falls to his knees in the dirt before Maria's mother, and begs: 'Can you ever forgive me 'She answers: 'My Marietta forgave you. How can I not 'On June 24, 1950, Pope Pius XII declares Maria Goretti a Saint before 500,000 people - the largest canonization in history. In the crowd, weeping openly, in a Capuchin habit too big for him, is Alessandro Serenelli. The murderer has come to the canonization of his victim.This is not a sweet story for little girls.This is a war story for 2026.For every teenager whose phone sells what Maria died to protect.For every person told purity is impossible and forgiveness is weakness.For every prisoner - behind bars or in your own mind - who thinks he is beyond mercy.\*\*FROM PRISONER TO PILGRIM\*\* to \*\*SAINT OF TODAY\*\*, this book will put fourteen burning lilies in your hands and ask you the two questions that made a saint and saved a killer: Can you say \*\*No - for the love of Jesus \*\*Can you say \*\*I forgive you - and I want you with me in Paradise \*\*Her body lies incorrupt in Nettuno. Her spirit is alive wherever a No sets someone free, and a forgiveness breaks a chain.The lilies are on fire.They are waiting for you.…