patron saints?

[photosynthesis]

hey, I know I already posted a thread about this on open mic... but this is bothering me.

I am trying to find if there are any saints who actually experienced rape. Not ATTEMPTED rape, like St. Maria Goretti or St. Dymphna. Actual rape.

I'm sorry if I'm being annoying about this, but it bothers me that there are no patron saints for women who have been rape that actually experienced it. I am not angry at the Church, but this really hurts me.

I know that out of the thousands of saints in existence, at least one of them had to experienced this. do you know about any saints in particular?

[phatcatholic]

i guess it depends on how you define "rape." my understanding is that the term is generally used to describe any unwanted sexual advances that are physical in nature and that it need not include intercourse. w/ this definition, it can be said that a woman was raped yet still remained a virgin.

St. Agatha's tortures could definitely be described as rape:
[url="http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainta04.htm"]http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainta04.htm[/url]

St. Dymphna's father made "advances" on her that she had to "fight off":
[url="http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintd01.htm"]http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintd01.htm[/url]

St. Joan of Arc had to take great pains to protect her purity while under the supervisions of "dissolute English soldiers" in a secular prison
[url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08409c.htm"]http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08409c.htm[/url][list]She was not allowed an advocate, and, though accused in an ecclesiastical court, she was throughout illegally confined in the Castle of Rouen, a secular prison, where she was guarded by dissolute English soldiers. Joan bitterly complained of this. She asked to be in the church prison, where she would have had female attendants. It was undoubtedly for the better protection of her modesty under such conditions that she persisted in retaining her male attire.
[/list]i for one think that Maria Goretti was raped, even tho her virginity remained in tact:
[url="http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintm09.htm"]http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintm09.htm[/url][list]He tried to rape the girl who fought, yelled that it was a sin, and that he would go to hell. He tried to choke her into submission, then stabbed her fourteen times.
[/list]Blessed Pierina Morosini was "attacked by a would-be rapist", which is a rather odd phrase. i would count her among the patrons you are looking for as well.
[url="http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintp3l.htm"]http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintp3l.htm[/url]

St. Solange had to resist the sexual advances of the Count of Poitiers in order to maintain her personal vow of chastity
[url="http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saints0s.htm"]http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saints0s.htm[/url]

i hope that helps

pax christi,
phatcatholic