Antonia Mesina, Italian martyr and saint (died 1935)

Antonia Mesina

Italian murder victim and saint

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.