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title: "St. Maria Goretti: Feast Day July 6 · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maria-goretti/
description: "St. Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr, patron of youth and victims of assault. Remembered on July 6, died 1902. Read their life in Bless."
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Virgin and Martyr · Remembered on July 6

# St. Maria Goretti

St. Maria Goretti is remembered on July 6 in Bless’s calendar of saints. Traditionally invoked as patron of youth and victims of assault.

|  |  |
|---|---|
| Remembered on | [July 6](https://blessbible.app/saints/july/#6) |
| Title | Virgin and Martyr |
| Died | 1902 |
| Patron of | [youth](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/#youth), [victims of assault](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/#victims-of-assault) |
| In their own words | 1 attributed saying (source unconfirmed) |
| Next on Bless’s Today screen | [Tuesday, July 6, 2027](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maria-goretti/#calendar) |

## Life

A farm laborer’s daughter of the Pontine marshes, eleven years old, keeping house for her widowed mother. When the neighbors’ son Alessandro tried to force her, she fought him off crying that it was a sin, that God did not want it — and he stabbed her fourteen times.

She lived a day, forgave him, and wanted him with her in heaven. In prison, years later, she appeared to him in a dream handing him lilies; he repented, and knelt beside her mother at her canonization in 1950 — the largest crowd Rome had ever seen.

## Patron of

Tradition invokes St. Maria Goretti as patron of youth and victims of assault.

[Youth](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/#youth) [Victims of assault](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/#victims-of-assault)

### Saints with the same patronage

- [St. John Bosco](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-bosco/) youth · January 31
- [St. Aloysius Gonzaga](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-aloysius-gonzaga/) youth · June 21

Patronages are traditional, not an official list. [All patron saints in Bless, A to Z](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/).

## In their own words

### Attributed, source unconfirmed

These sayings circulate under the saint’s name, but no source has been confirmed. Bless shows them with that label.

> I forgive Alessandro, and I want him with me in heaven forever.

— Popular saying, source unconfirmed

## In Scripture

In Bless, St. Maria Goretti’s words appear in the comments beside these verses. This page’s labels say how each is linked: “on this verse” means the saint wrote about that very verse; “on this theme” means the quotation shares its theme. Scripture is quoted from the Catholic Public Domain Version.

1. On this theme · source unconfirmed
   > But I say to you: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. And pray for those who persecute and slander you.
   — [Matthew 5:44](https://blessbible.app/bible/matthew/5/#v44) · CPDV
   Beside their words: [“I forgive Alessandro, and I want him with me in heaven forever.”](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maria-goretti/#q188)

## In the calendar

The upcoming dates, through December 31, 2028, when Bless’s Today screen shows St. Maria Goretti. Where the US calendar keeps another celebration that day, it is named instead and no rank is given.

| Date | In the US calendar | Color | Mass readings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Tuesday, July 6, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/07/06/) | Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time | Green | Genesis 32:23-33 · Psalm 17:1b, 2-3, 6-7ab, 8b and 15 · John 10:14 · Matthew 9:32-38 |
| [Thursday, July 6, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/07/06/) | Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time | Green | Amos 7:10-17 · Psalm 19:8, 9, 10, 11 · 2 Corinthians 5:19 · Matthew 9:1-8 |

Readings

Later citations were computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

[July 5 St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-anthony-mary-zaccaria/) [July 7 St. Willibald](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-willibald/)

[All the saints of July](https://blessbible.app/saints/july/) [Born on July 6?](https://blessbible.app/saints/birthday/#07-06) [A saint for every day](https://blessbible.app/saints/)

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St. Maria Goretti

Remembered on July 6

On this page

1. [Life](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maria-goretti/#life)
2. [Patron of](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maria-goretti/#patron)
3. [In their own words](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maria-goretti/#words)
4. [In Scripture](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maria-goretti/#scripture)
5. [In the calendar](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maria-goretti/#calendar)

In the app

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