Daughter of Saint Gianna Molla--Whose Mother Let Her Live and Died Instead--Tells of Her Mother, a Saint, at St. Paul's Parish

[mdgspencer]

Saint Gianna Molla refused to have an abortion that would have saved her life. She died, and her daughter lived. She died in 1964. The daughter who lived was at her own mother’s canonization ceremony in 2004, when her mother was declared a saint. This daughter came to a Catholic church in Maryland in the United States to tell the people there about her mother, a saint, as this article relates.
–see catholicreview.org/article/home/daughter-of-st-gianna-molla-shares-story-of-her-sacrifice-with-ellicott-city-parish

 

[ClearWater]

Oh…very beautiful!

 

[RomanoAmerio]

Dear MdgSpencer,

Thank you for sharing this inspiring article.

It is a source of endless puzzlement to me why St. Gianna is not chosen as a patroness by those who choose to fight the “pro-life” battle on the cultural / political front.

 

[Gilly_flower]

Without wishing to undermine the gravity of the choice which faced her during a difficult pregnancy, it would appear from the article that Gianna died from a post c-section infection, rather than from complications in deciding to carry the baby to term?

 

[steve93]

Haven’t there been women who were discovered to be cancerous while pregnant and refused radiation so they wouldn’t kill the baby?

 

[Gilly_flower]

Yes - that was more or less my point. Does anyone know more about why Gianna was canonised?

 

[ToeInTheWater]

Dear MdgSpencer,

Thank you for sharing this inspiring article.

It is a source of endless puzzlement to me why St. Gianna is not chosen as a patroness by those who choose to fight the “pro-life” battle on the cultural / political front.

Well, according to the article, she is the patron saint of unborn children among others:

St. Gianna was a physician specializing in pediatrics. She is the patron saint of doctors, mothers and unborn children. Her daughter noted that she was also a laywoman with a very strong faith who loved her husband passionately and was devoted to her children.

I actually find St. Gianna easier to relate to than many of the saints who were priests and nuns. I also find it inspiring that she was a woman with a career who also “loved her husband passionately and was devoted to her children”, so obviously despite the claims of some Traditionalists would see a working mother as automatically NOT being devoted to her family, the Church does not find it a sin for mother to have a career, too.

 

[Jeanne_S]

How incredibly awesome it must be for St.Giannia’s daughter.To know that her mother is a canonized saint!