Extraordinary Event – The Body of Saint Maria Goretti Is Making a Pilgrimage to Saint Maria Goretti Church – Sept. 22, 2015

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Pope Francis proclaimed a Holy Year of Mercy beginning this December 8, 2015 and continuing to November 20, 2016. To mark the solemn occasion of this Jubilee Year, the Vatican, in conjunction with the Congregation of the Causes of Saints has announced the extraordinary pilgrimage of the bodily remains of Saint Maria Goretti.


The glass and gold reliquary containing her body will leave her shrine in Nettuno, Italy and begin the Pilgrimage of Mercy Tour in the United States of America this September.

This is the first time that Saint Maria Goretti’s body will travel to the United States and only the second time that she has left Italy.

Saint Maria Goretti Church in Hatfield will be the second stop on the tour and will host the body of their parish patroness and our “Little Saint of Great Mercy” on Tuesday, September 22, 2015.

Public veneration will begin at 12:00 PM.
Solemn Mass in honor of Saint Maria Goretti will be celebrated at 7:00 PM.
When Mass concludes, public veneration will continue until 11:00 PM.

On Wednesday and Thursday of that week, Saint Maria’s relics will travel to the Saint Rita Shrine and Saint John the Evangelist Church in Philadelphia so that those attending the World Meeting of Families may venerate her, as well.

For more information on this event, see the official webpage at www.MariaGoretti.com