The point is, she got her canonization for avoiding premarital sex at knifepoint. Read the Goretti narratives, all of them, and see for yourself. The word or concept of rape did not ruffle the great minds that dreamed this thing up. She was probably brutally overcome and raped in that kitchen. No one knows what she said in that kitchen because no one was there. 

If it is courageous to not give into your rapist, then it is cowardly and immoral to give into him.