Saint Maria Goretti was sewing in her home while her family was in the fields. She tried her best to avoid very serious sins. Maria lived with more than one family, and a man tried to force her to sin. She said to him that she would rather die than disobey God's Commandments. Being angry, he grabbed a knife and stabbed her eight times. He tried to leave but then she screamed, and so he stabbed her six more times. At the Hospital, she received communion, and forgave Alessandro. She forgave the man that stabbed her. Most people don't do that, but she did. She inspires me because of her forgiving nature. At her canonization, Alessandro was there with her family. They forgave him to. That is something that we all should attempt to do. She was my age, and so I want to be like her as best as I can.
St Mary's Bellevue
6th grade
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