Feast May 17
Blessed Antonia Mesina
Blessed · Martyr · Feast May 17
Biography
Antonia Mesina was a 15 year old Italian Roman Catholic and part of Catholic Action. Mesina was murdered in mid-1935 after she attempted to fend off a would-be rapist and suffered 74 strikes with a stone before she died. She was beatified in 1987.
Feast day
May 17
Birth date
21 June 1919
Death date
1935-05-17
Canonization status
Beatified
Feast month
5
Wikidata qid
Q2608376
Feast day of month
17