[NYer]

Gianna Molla has become an icon for the pro-life movement and as such she and the decision to canonize her have come under attack in the media.

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[Victoria Delsoul]

St. Gianna is the first lay woman canonized who was a wife and mother and whose husband was still alive at the time of her death. Many married women have been canonized but they were all widows. Jose, Cardinal Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints, said of her, "She lived her marriage and maternity with joy, generosity and absolute fidelity to her mission,"

This is great, and she was canonized in a short period of time relative to most canonizations.