Maria was born into a loving family who was very poor. She had 5 brothers and sisters and the whole family loved God very much. In order to provide for the family, Maria’s family moved to a large farm with another farmer and his 16 year old son, Mr. Serenelli and Allessandro. Maria worked very hard to help her family and she grew up to be a very kind, loving and beautiful girl whom everyone loved. Since she was so beautiful, Allessandro started to notice her and tried to make her do things with him that were sinful. Maria always said no and this made Allessandro very mad. On July 5th 1902 Allessandro got so mad at Maria because she would not do what he wanted and sin against God, so he killed her. Before Maria died she told the priest that she forgave Allessandro for all the bad things he did to her and she prayed that God would forgive him too. Allessandro was put in jail for 30 years and for a long time he was not sorry for what he did, until one night in a dream Maria appeared to him. She was walking in a garden and gave him lilies. She told him that she would like to see him in heaven one day. When Allessandro woke up he became so sorry for what he did and asked God for forgiveness; when he was let out of prison he also asked Maria’s mom for forgiveness. He spent the rest of his life as a gardener at a monastery.
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