📚 St. Gianna Beretta Molla
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St. Gianna Beretta Molla was an Italian pediatrician, wife, and mother who lived her vocation with extraordinary faith and courage. When complications arose during her fourth pregnancy, she chose to preserve her unborn child’s life rather than undergo a procedure that would have saved her own. Her final act of self-sacrificing love became a profound witness to the sanctity of life and the beauty of maternal vocation. She united her medical profession and motherhood under the guidance of Christ, offering her life as a testament to love and holiness in the modern world. Lived: 1922–1962 | Feast Day: April 28 | Canonized: May 16, 2004, by Pope St. John Paul II Patronage: Mothers, physicians, unborn children, and families.