Maria Goretti: Episode Two
The Saints
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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🗺️ Maria Goretti - Episode Two: The Victim
Intent on solving the mystery of Maria Goretti, the girl martyr already popularly revered across Italy, Holy See investigator Father Giovanni finds himself in the garden of a Capuchin monastery, slowly drawing out the details from the victim's murderer.
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Saint Maria Goretti’s heroic witness of purity and forgiveness make her one of the Church’s most beloved saints. However, it was not the manner of her death that led to her canonization, but her exemplary life of holiness, caring for her family in an environment of extreme poverty and placing Jesus first in her life. Her willingness to forgive her murderer and desire to help him get to Heaven show her total trust in God’s love.
This series contains moments of extreme intensity. There are references throughout to Alessandro’s ‘terrible crime.’ The moments leading up to his attempted assault and Maria’s murder are portrayed. While the violent event itself is not portrayed, later dialogue references the number of times that Maria was stabbed, and the amount of bleeding she suffered. Doctors tell Maria’s mother that they will have to operate on her without anesthetic. In the courtroom, a lawyer tells the judge that Alessandro killed Maria ‘when she denied his advances.’ Alessandro screams and lunges at a priest who comes to visit him while he is in prison.
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| 0:00.0 | The story of St. Maria Goretty includes mature themes. |
| 0:03.0 | If you're listening with younger ears, you may want to screen these episodes first. |
| 0:07.3 | Thank you for listening. |
| 0:10.2 | Italy, 1940. |
| 0:13.6 | Intent on solving the mystery of Maria Gorette, the girl martyr already popularly revered across Italy, |
| 0:23.2 | Holy See Investigator Father Giovanni, himself in the garden of a Capuchin monastery, |
| 0:27.7 | slowly drawing out the details from the victim's murderer. |
| 0:41.2 | The Saints Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:45.0 | Maria Goretty. |
| 0:46.8 | Episode 2, The Victim. |
| 0:50.0 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the Saintspodcast.com. |
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| 1:18.9 | Thank you. at the Saintspodcast.com slash Colby. You talk about Maria with love, |
| 1:22.7 | and you clearly knew her habits and personality well. |
| 1:26.6 | How could you bring yourself to? |
| 1:30.2 | To murder her? Yes. |
| 1:34.3 | My desire to, to control her overwhelmed me. |
| 1:39.9 | Is that how you explain your crime? |
| 1:43.2 | Nothing can serve as an adequate explanation for what I did. |
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