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"Mercy Unrelenting" opens as an elderly Italian ex-convict, Alessandro Serenelli, confronts his painful history. His crime? In his youth, he murdered a girl after she refused his sexual advances. But his victim, Maria Goretti, was no ordinary peasant girl. Her dramatic death and great personal virtue caused the Catholic Church to quickly canonize Goretti as a virgin-martyr. Now Serenelli struggles to live down his past, not only as a simple murderer, but as the murderer of a bona fide Catholic saint. Open Window Theatre presents playwright Jeremy Stanbary's retelling of both this extraordinary true crime and the real-life redemption that it inspired.