Saint Gianna Molla: Wife, Mother, Doctor World Religions Life After Death

Life After Death

and the demands of authentic pastoral care

and re-orient themselves—to help heal the hurts caused by goodbyes and the anxieties encountered when one season of life ends and another begins

This volume of the Lectionary is available in three convenient formats

but as the cry of a soul

Saint Gianna Molla: Wife, Mother, Doctor World Religions Life After DeathThis is the inspiring story of a canonized contemporary woman. Gianna Molla (1923 1962) risked her life in order to save her unborn child. Diagnosed with uterine tumors during her fourth pregnancy, she refused a hysterectomy that would have aborted the child, and opted for a riskier surgery in an attempt to save the baby. Herself a medical doctor, Molla did give birth to the child, but succumbed to an infection. An Italian woman who loved skiing,