Maria Goretti Research Paper

Through the course of this story, it was a huge misunderstanding by Maria that Nemecia had killed their grandfather and hurt her own mother. However, Maria is not to blame for this misconception

She came to live with the Fromes after her father died. Women at this time stay at home and take care of the house.

needed for them to run a household. As Mason shows, they prove to be very resourceful and are

then he became a stranger. Soon, she began to see a crazy, God-fearing man. Scripture

Raymond of Capua deduces in his book The Life of Saint Catherine of Siena that the marriage between Catherine and Christ was granted by the Virgin Mary based on the mercy Mary bestows on everyone who prays to her. He writes, Catherine “turns to one who distributes her graces most generously who, being unable to refuse even sinners, and never rejects anyone, who gives to wise and foolish alike…How can such a one fail to hear an ardent innocent young girl?” (32). Catherine's newfound bond with Christ was sealed soon

They owned their own dairy farm and sold many goods such as livestock, dairy products such as milk, cheese, and butter. Maria’s mother Sophia died when she was a young child at the age of 10 years old. It was devastating but their family of eight kept strong and continued to survive.

Mariam struggled often with the constant rigor of her daily housewife work. As a child, Mariam encountered many horrific adversities and obstacles that she had to fight through. She lived with her mother, who she refers to as Nana. Nana was a very strict, bitter, and nasty woman. Mariam was the only thing she had in her life and she constantly treated her as dirt. She referred to Mariam as a harami, which translates to a sinner and/or a bad person in our culture. Her mother’s source of bitterness derived from the fact that Mariam’s successful father Jalil

Maria is a religious mother of six who throughout the book she is very close minded and unwilling to change her plans or way of life no matter the influence. Maria is a member of the Luna, a family of religious farmers and as such she wants Antonio to become the next educated priest to guide the Luna in the future. She finds comfort in the steady life of farming and finds her husband 's ideals to be idiotic and unrealistic. When arguing about their land, Gabriel sees it as a symbol of freedom but Maria says in retort “It is worthless! Look

These two statements are very important because they are the backbone of the whole book. These are the strongest parts that support the women she is. She is so hand in hand with God that she doesn’t even once criticize the reasons she’s in captive but as I have stated before, she blames herself for not praying enough. In the sixth remove she explains her circumstance, her being surrounded by her former enemies amidst no Christians at all but herself. She exclaims, “Oh the experience that I have had of the goodness of God, to me and mine!” Without any form of disbelief she praises the kindness of God. The beauty of her relationship with God is that she mentions no matter what kind of situation she is in whether it be near death or with luxuries. And she sees every good thing that happens to her as a sign of God. To sum it up, everything that has happened to her was pre-planned and the grace of God.

Chiara Offreduccio born on July 16, 1194 Assisi, Italy. St Clare of Assisi being her name now due to her being canonized in 1255, was born into a wealthy family that own a house on the top of the hill in Assisi. Clare being the eldest sister she followed by example by the teaching of Jesus. We believe that when Clare was little she would have be able to hear and see the mass from her room as she not able to go to mass therefore she is called the patron saint of television. On palm Sunday 1212 St Clare of Assisi ran to Rome with St Francis Xavier to preach the word of the Lord and the Order of Poor Ladies, a group of poor women that dedicated their life to God and wanted to be recognised to the Catholic Church. St Clare of Assisi died August 11 1253, feast day on August 11 each year.

It was nothing to her, that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his

Angela Merici died on January 27, 1540. She was buried in the habit of a Franciscan tertiary, and was laid to rest in the Church of St. Afra in Brescia, Italy. St. Angela Merici was beatified on April 30, 1768 by Pope Clement XIII. St. Angela Merici was canonized on May 24, 1807 by Pope Pius VII. The day of St. Angela Merici’s feast day had been changed a couple times before its current day of January 27. St. Angela Merici’s original feast day was May 31, but was changed to June 1 by Pope Pius XII in 1955. Most recently, it was changed to January 27 by Pope Paul VI in 1969 (St. Angela Merici).

      Maria was the last of five children. Her oldest sister died of Typhus, one sister became a teacher and a brother and a sister both became physicians. Her family was not very rich, but education was

St. Clare of Assisi was born on July 16, 1194 and died on August 11, 1253. Clare lived in Assisi Italy her whole life and was one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi. She was the oldest daughter of Favorino Sciffi, who was a wealthy representative of an ancient Roman family, who owned a large palace in Assisi and a castle.

their home it was feast or famine. Not that there was ever a feast. Her undergarments were made from flour sacks. It took everyone working to provide for the family. Perhaps a