Can one be perfect disciples of the Lord even through lay and family life? Gianna Beretta Molla, proclaimed a saint in 2004, is known for the heroic circumstances of her death. But before this she is a saint because she, within a normal life, lived in absolute fidelity to the gospel.
Can one be perfect disciples of the Lord even through lay and family life? Can marriage really be a path to becoming a saint?
Gianna Beretta Molla, proclaimed a saint by John Paul II in 2004, is known above all for the heroic circumstances of her death: during her fourth pregnancy she preferred to risk her life, losing it, in order to give birth to her daughter.
But even before this last heroic gesture, Gianna is a saint because, within an absolutely normal life, she lived in absolute fidelity to the Gospel and in perfect coherence with her Christian faith.
`The greatness of Gianna Beretta Molla consists in the fact that she took the same steps as us, she had our problems and our difficulties, showing us that, in normality, we can sanctify ourselves,' Cardinal Martini wrote about her.
Saint for how she lived, therefore, before how she died: it is her life, not her death, that is exemplary. Gianna Beretta Spring. The saint in love It is, more than a biography, a testimony of faith lived intensely in everyday life by a woman like many others. A holy woman.