1919
Antonia Mesina, Italian martyr and saint (died 1935)
Antonia Mesina, Italian martyr and saint (died 1935)
Antonia Mesina, Italian martyr and saint (died 1935)
Antonia Mesina
Italian murder victim and saint
- Born
- 1919
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.