She was grabbed from behind by a would be rapist he grabbed a rock and she was struck repeatly in the face and the head the captain of the police and the other citizens rushed to her rescue after hearing her friends screams and found the bloody and brutally wounded body of the 16 year old her face was horribly disfigured from the fierce beating after an autopsy it was revealed that her body was not violated she had died a martyr of holy purity her assassin was captured tried and condemned to death during the process for her beatification her body was exhumed from the local cemetery a grand procession of the townspeople led by the bishop and several other priests accompanied the relics to the church of the Holy Saviour where they now recline in a black marble tomb both the tomb and the memorial stone that marks the place of martyrdom are often visited by her devotees she was beatified on Sunday October 4, 1987 by Pope John Paul II also beatified during the same ceremony were Blessed Pierina Morosini and Blessed Marcel Callo all three being twentieth century laymen and martyrs.
She was grabbed from behind by a would be rapist he grabbed a rock and she was struck repeatly in the face and the head the captain of the police and the other citizens rushed to her rescue after hearing her friends screams and found the bloody and brutally wounded body of the 16 year old her face was horribly disfigured from the fierce beating after an autopsy it was revealed that her body was not violated she had died a martyr of holy purity her assassin was captured tried and condemned to death during the process for her beatification her body was exhumed from the local cemetery a grand procession of the townspeople led by the bishop and several other priests accompanied the relics to the church of the Holy Saviour where they now recline in a black marble tomb both the tomb and the memorial stone that marks the place of martyrdom are often visited by her devotees she was beatified on Sunday October 4, 1987 by Pope John Paul II also beatified during the same ceremony were Blessed Pierina Morosini and Blessed Marcel Callo all three being twentieth century laymen and martyrs.
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