Feast April 28
Saint Gianna Beretta Molla
Saint, patron of Doctors · Feast April 28
Biography
Gianna Beretta Molla was an Italian Catholic pediatrician. Although aware of possible fatal consequences, Molla refused both an abortion and a hysterectomy during her pregnancy with her fourth child in order to preserve the child's life.
Feast day
April 28
Patronage
Doctors
mothers
wives
families
unborn
World Meeting of Families 2015 (co-patron)
Birth date
1922-10-04
Death date
1962-04-28
Canonization status
Canonized
Canonization date
16 May 2004
Canonized by
Pope John Paul II
Feast month
4
Wikidata qid
Q238963
Feast day of month
28