Blessed Pierina Morosini was born on January 7, 1931, in Italy, the oldest child in a large family, and died on this date in 
1957. One of the highlights of her short life came when she was sixteen, and she traveled from her village in northern Italy to Rome for Maria Goretti’s beatification.
Pierina was active in Catholic Action, and worked in a cotton mill as a seamstress. Then, one day on her way home from work, a man attacked her. She resisted, and he used stones to render her unconscious. It is said she had her rosary beads in her hands at the time of her attack. Pierina died in the hospital two days later.
Blessed Pierina Morosini said: “May I never allow myself even the smallest compromise with sin whether in dress, speech, reading, looks, or entertainment.”
Consider Pierina’s words. Is there a place sin is creeping into your life, seemingly innocuously? Pray for the strength to ferret it out and destroy it.
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