Positivity: Italian Mother ‘Lays Down Her Life’ for Her Unborn Child
Thursday May 1, 2008
Paola Brenda sacrifices life for “gift of motherhood, the gift of having children”
In an act of sacrifice comparable to that of pro-life patroness St. Gianna Beretta Molla, Italian mother Paola Breda recently died after having declined potentially life-saving cancer treatment that could have harmed her unborn child.
Breda was diagnosed with breast cancer six months into her pregnancy with her child Nicola, but postponed treatment until after Nicola’s birth.
During her funeral, Vittorio Veneto Bishop Corrado Pizziolo called Breda an exemplification of Jesus Christ’s Gospel call “to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
“What Jesus did - the Gospel which He lived for us - this is what we see carried out in the life of our sister,” said the Bishop according to the Italian newspaper Avvenire.
Father Giuseppe Nadal told Radio Vaticana that Breda was disappointed that she and her husband Loris Amodei were unable to have a child until a decade into their marriage.
Both Breda’s first child, Illaria, and her second child, Nicola, brought their mother great joy, said the priest. Fr. Nadal also recounted a teary-eyed Breda coming to him during her second pregnancy.
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