Saint Maria Goretti: Fourteen Flowers of Pardon (DVD)

This is the true story of a young virgin's ultimate act of love. On her deathbed, eleven year old Maria Goretti forgave Alessandro Serenelli, the man who mortally stabbed her because she resisted his attempted rape. Alessandro was sentenced to 30 years in prison for murdering Maria. After eight years in jail he had no remorse. But eventually he converted after Maria miraculously appeared to him in a dream.

Shot on location in Italy, this moving account takes you on a historic and poignant journey through the life, martyrdom and canonization of one of the Church's youngest saints, Maria Goretti. Maria's life and martyrdom in Italy's Pontine swamps at the beginning of this century comes to life through historic photographs, interviews with the saint's mother and never seen before film footage of the canonization ceremony.

We have shown this film on our Mother-Daughter and Confirmation retreats and received very good responses from the young people.

This DVD is Region 1 formatted for viewing in the US and Canada.