Host Johnnette Williams shares how July 6 marks the feast day of St. Maria Goretti, a young virgin and martyr whose life is an example of purity and mercy for all Christians.

St. Maria Goretti is best known for her commitment to purity and the courageous defense of her faith at the young age of eleven that made her willing to undergo death rather than participate in a sin against God. 

She is also remarkable for the forgiveness she willingly granted her attacker as she lay on her deathbed.