Posted on 06/21/2020 7:09:58 PM PDT by robowombat
Pope Francis declares Catholic sister killed in Satanic ritual a martyr
By Hannah Brockhaus
Vatican City, Jun 19, 2020 / 12:40 pm MT (CNA).- Pope Francis declared Friday that Sister Maria Laura Mainetti, an Italian religious sister killed by three teenage girls in a Satanic sacrifice, was a martyr for the Catholic faith.
The 60-year-old Sister of the Cross was in 2000 stabbed to death by three teenage girls in a park in Chiavenna, Italy.
Mainetti's killers were convicted and imprisoned.
The girls knew the religious sister because she had taught them catechism. They lured her to the park by claiming that one of them needed to talk, because she had been raped and impregnated and was considering an abortion.
The three girls originally said the murder was "for a game," but later admitted they killed her as a demonic ritual.
In the park on the evening of June 6, 2000, the three girls made Mainetti kneel and shouted abuses at her. One girl beat the sister with a brick and another pushed her head repeatedly into a wall.
They took turns stabbing Mainetti 19 times with a kitchen knife. They had, according to Italian media reports, intended to stab her 18 times, six times each, to form by their violence the number 666.
Sr. Mainetti prayed throughout the attack and asked God to forgive the girls for their actions.
Her last words, according to some accounts of her death, were “Lord, forgive them.”
Mainetti was the superior of the Sisters of the Cross convent in Chiavenna, which was devoted to helping juvenile delinquents. The girls who killed Mainetti, however, had no prior history of crime or violence.
They confessed that they had originally planned to kill the parish priest, but decided that because he was larger, it would prove too difficult. Investigators said the girls’ notebooks were filled Satanic writings, and that they had made a blood oath some months earlier.
The killers have since been freed from prison, and have started families — changing their names and moving to large Italian cities, according to Corriere della Serra.
Their victim was born Teresina Elsa Mainetti in Colico, Italy on August 20, 1939. She was the youngest of ten children; her mother died in childbirth. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Cross at 18 years old.
She dedicated her life to children, young people, and families in the towns of Vasto, Rome, and Parma before moving to Chiavenna in 1984.
Mainetti was well known in her small town for her social and charitable commitment to dispossessed youth and poor people.
In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI praised Mainetti, who, he said, "with a total giving of self, sacrificed her life while praying for those who were attacking her."
Pope Francis also advanced June 19 the causes of four other men and women on the path to sainthood.
He approved miracles attributed to the causes of three Venerable Servants of God, who can now be beatified: Argentinian Bishop Mamerto Esquiú of the Order of Friars Minor (1826-1883); German Fr. Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan, founder of the Society of the Divine Savior (1848-1918); and Venezuelan layman and doctor Jose Gregorio Hernandez Cisneros (1864-1919).
The pope also declared the heroic virtue of Servant of God Maria de Jesus Elizondo Garcia, superior general of the Congregation of the Catechist Missionaries of the Poor. She was born in Durango, Mexico in 1908 and died in Monterrey on December 8, 1966.
If it’s currently happening more and more then yes.
This was 20 years ago. I was only 32 :)
But there’s enough other ways to see that darkness is setting upon the world.
Let’s hope the sun comes out. The good guys can still win
For the record, the “girls” were ages 16, 17, and 17. Practically women.
They should’ve never been released from prison.
vagina card
plus minor card
personally i care not at all what age or sex murderers are
if you dont execute them they should be locked up for their lives.
Holy New Martyr Maria, pray for us!
“The killers have since been freed from prison, and have started families”
“Sr. Mainetti prayed throughout the attack and asked God to forgive the girls for their actions...Her last words, according to some accounts of her death, were “Lord, forgive them.”
Don’t worry Sister, that Joke called the EU Judicial System already did.
I wonder if they celebrate or at least observe Christmas.
I wonder how these women react when one of their children brings home an Easter-themed arts & crafts project from school.
I wonder how these women react when one of their children asks, "What's a nun?"
I wonder what kind of men these women married.
Regards,
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