St. Gianna Molla
Patron Saint of Mothers, Physicians, and Unborn Children
St. Gianna Beretta Molla was an Italian pediatrician in the mid 20th-century. Gianna would spend her free time using her medical skills to help the poor, elderly, and those in need throughout her city in Italy. During her fourth pregnancy, she refused an abortion and a hysterectomy in order to save her unborn child's life at the cost of her own. While she delivered her fourth child on Holy Saturday of 1961, Gianna would die a week later. She is a model of Catholic marriage and Catholic doctors, and she is a patron saint of mothers and physicians.