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Maria Laura Mainetti

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Italian religious, martyr and blessed

ItalyLived 1939 to 2000 · aged 60
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Maria Laura Mainetti was an Italian religious sister of the Sisters of the Cross. Mother superior of a convent in Chiavenna that specialised in helping juvenile delinquents, she was stabbed to death in a satanic sacrifice by three teenage girls on the night of 6 June 2000.

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Memorial for Mainetti at the site of her murder. The following bible verse is inscribed: "If the grain of wheat dies, it bears much fruit" (John 12:24)Memorial for Mainetti at the site of her murder. The following bible verse is inscribed: "If the grain of wheat dies, it bears much fruit" (John 12:24)

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Maria Laura Mainetti was an Italian religious sister of the Sisters of the Cross. Mother superior of a convent in Chiavenna that specialised in helping juvenile delinquents, she was stabbed to death in a satanic sacrifice by three teenage girls on the night of 6 June 2000. Mainetti's death was declared a martyrdom by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in 2020, and she was beatified on 6 June 2021, the twenty-first anniversary of her murder.

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Italy
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Lived 1939 to 2000 · aged 60
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