9/7/2021 – Bl. Maria Assunta Pallotta

Maria Assunta Pallotta (20 August 1878 – 7 April 1905), born Assunta Maria Pallotta, was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious who served as a member of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary and also as part of the missions to China; the latter proved to – as a minor inconvenience – to be troublesome due to the missionaries killed during the Boxer Rebellion.