Santa Maria Goretti, Rome
Santa Maria Goretti is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church in the northern suburbs of Rome, dedicated to Saint Maria Goretti.
Santa Maria Goretti, Rome
Interior view; the fresco behind the altar is by Luigi Montanarini [it].
Maria Teresa Goretti was an Italian virgin martyr of the Catholic Church, and one of the youngest saints to be canonized. She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she was nine, and the family had to share a house with another family, the Serenellis. She took over household duties while her mother and siblings worked in the fields.
Maria Goretti
La Cascina Antica (right), the Goretti home (currently under the care of the Passionist sisters)
The only known photograph of Maria Goretti, dated to early 1902
A statue of Maria in peasant garb holding lilies and a knife