St. Gianna Beretta Molla was born in 1922. As a young woman, she wanted to be a missionary but eventually saw that God was calling her to marriage and family life. She became a pediatrician, and she and her husband Pietro had three children. They lived a full and joyful life. When she was pregnant with her fourth child, she was diagnosed with a benign tumour in her uterus. After refusing any treatment that would take the life of her child, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl, before dying of complications from the birth eight days later, at the age of 39.
St Gianna is the patron saint of mothers, doctors, and unborn children.
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References and further reading/listening/viewing:
St Gianna Beretta Molla's website
Gianna Beretta and Pietro Molla, The journey of our love: the letters of Saint
Pietro Molla, Saint Gianna Molla: wife, mother, doctor
National Catholic Register, "5 Things St. Gianna and Her Husband Teach Us About Dating, Marriage and Love"
Hallow, "St. Gianna Beretta Molla"
Salt + Light Media, "Pierluigi Molla, on his mother, St. Gianna"
Aleteia, "St. Gianna’s son: 'She is not only a saint because of her heroic deed'"