The Saint Gianna Mass offers an evening of prayer for couples suffering infertility and miscarriage on Monday, May 8 at 6:30 PM, at the Church of St. Catherine of Siena (411 E. 68th St. between 1st and York Ave).

Mass will be followed by the veneration of the relics of St. Gianna, a light reception, and the opportunity to meet privately with physicians and practitioners who specialize in assisting couples with infertility. Physicians and practitioners from the Gianna Center for Women’s Health and Fertility will be available for consultation.

Gianna Beretta Molla was born in Italy in 1922. A pediatrician, while pregnant with her and her husband’s fourth child, she chose to have a fibroma, or benign tumor, on her uterus removed, rather than abort the unborn child. She took the pregnancy to term but died a week later from complications. 

Molla was canonized in 2004. She is a patron saint of doctors, mothers, wives, families, and the unborn.