Blessed Antonia Mesina
Also known as
- Antonia Messina
Profile
Second of ten children born to a peasant family. She received only four years of school, quitting to take over housekeeping from her mother, Grazia, who was bed-ridden with a heart condition. Joined Catholic Action at age ten, becoming an active and lively member and recruiter. At age 16, while out gathering wood for home, she was beaten and murdered by a teenage would-be rapist, fighting him off to her last breath; considered a martyr to purity.
Born
- 8 May 1987 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Antonia Mesina“. CatholicSaints.Info. 2 June 2017. Web. 21 July 2019. <>