Antonia Mesina

Blessed Antonia Messina was born on 21 June 1919. She was the second of ten children born to a poor family. After four years of school she took over housekeeping to help her bedridden mother, Grazia. She joined Catholic Action at the age of ten. While gathering firewood on 17 May 1935, she was murdered by a teenage would-be rapist. She fought him away with all her strength and chose to die rather than to submit to him. Her body was examined and it was found that she had not been sinfully violated. Her feast is celebrated on 17 May.
==References==
==External links==
*http://www.savior.org/saints/antonia.htm
*http://saints.sqpn.com/sainta6i.htm
Category:1919 births
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Category:20th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
Category:20th-century venerated Christians
Category:Beatified people
Category:Child saints
Category:Italian Roman Catholic saints
Category:Murdered Italian children
Category:People from Sardinia
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