Rome Newsroom, Nov 27, 2020 / 11:00 am
A religious sister who knew Venerable Maria Laura Mainetti said the woman, who was murdered 20 years ago as part of a Satanic ritual, made the ordinary extraordinary by her love, and found joy in her service to young people, whom she called "my Jesus."
The 60-year-old Mainetti was stabbed to death by three teenage girls in the town of Chiavenna, Italy, in 2000. In May, Pope Francis declared Mainetti to be a martyr, killed "in hatred of the faith." She will be beatified on June 6, 2021, the 21st anniversary of her murder.
Mainetti was a sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Cross for more than 40 years, where she knew Sr. Beniamina Mariani, who is her biographer and the postulator of her beatification cause.
Mariani told ACI Stampa, CNA's Italian-language partner, that Mainetti "lived in humility, simplicity and joy the gift of herself to God and to her brothers and sisters."