St. Gianna’s Husband Passes Away

I found out yesterday that St. Gianna Beretta Molla’s husband, Pietro, died on Holy Saturday. His wife obtained sanctity through her holy life and in particular through the heroic choices she made during the birth of their final child, Gianna Emanuela. I have friends who are probably married to future saints and I definitely have friends who will marry and become saints, but to be married to a canonized saint? I know Pietro’s dead, but it’s hard not to envy him!

Pietro Molla, husband of St Gianna Beretta Molla, who gave her life for her unborn child, has died near Milan aged 97.

“Early on Holy Saturday morning, April 3, 2010, Mr. Pietro Molla, husband of St. Gianna Beretta Molla, died in his family home in Mesero, near Milan in Italy, surrounded by his daughter Gianna Emanuela and his other children, Pierluigi and Laura,” Fr Tom Rosica wrote on ZENIT.

Mr Molla was 97 years old and had been in failing health for several years.

“I shall never forget the eve of St Gianna’s canonization at the Vatican on May 16, 2004, when Pietro called me … read more