Maria goretti alessandro serenelli letter

Alessandro Serenelli was the murderer of eleven year old Maria Goretti. This article features a letter which he wrote towards the end of his life.

When he was twenty he made sexual advances towards Maria, his neighbour, but she refused to submit.

He stabbed her fourteen times. She died the next day. Her last words were “I forgive Alessandro Serenelli…and I want him with me in heaven forever. Alessandro was imprisoned for thirty years.

Maria goretti alessandro serenelli letter

He experienced anger, nervousness and a difficult time but eventually repented and found peace. After serving his 27 year sentence he asked pardon from Maria’s mother and from the community on a Christmas mass. He also became a Franciscan lay brother with the Caphucins.

A few years before he died in 1970, Alessandro wrote the letter below:

“I’m nearly 80 years old. I’m about to depart.

Looking back at my past, I can see that in my early youth, I chose a bad path which led me to ruin myself.

My behavior was