Pilgrim's death

[claudia castellani]

I would like to add my prayer for this brave pilgrim!
Thank you Rosina for posting this beautiful story.

Claudia



>Quoting Rosina Lila <Blaroliaaol.com>:
>
> > Hola,
> > An Italian female pilgrim, dying of cancer, achieved her expressed
> > desire to
> > die"at the feet of the Apostle".
> > She made the trip to Santiago by bus, with other Italians going to
> > Santiago,
> > despite the warnings of her doctors that the trip might hasten her
> > death.  On
> > September 8, she attended the Pilgrims' Mass during which she became
> > quite
> > ill; she was taken to the Sacristy by her companions and from there  to
> > the
> > cloister where she was attended by nurses of the Malta Order.  She is
> > described as
> > being about fifty years old, blonde, and vary pale. While on a gurney at
> > the
> > cloister she appeared to be in a great deal of pain holding her stomach.
> > The
> > Archbishop, Msgr. Julian Barrio, who was in the Cathedral at the time,
> > went to
> > her side, gave her communion and administered Extreme Unction rites.
> > A summoned ambulance arrived shortly after and, at the urging of her
> > family,
> > she was taken to a private site where she died almost immediately.
> > Her family informed that she knew herself to be suffering from
> > terminal
> > stomach cancer, but that, despite the attending pain of such illness,
> > she had
> > insisted on going to Santiago and attending a Pilgrims' Mass, in an
> > ultimate act
> > of faith and sacrifice.
> >
> > Some of you may remember the don Gayferos de Mormaltan romance in which
> > he
> > goes to Santiago to die "porque eu morrerei contento nesta Santa
> > Catedral"
> > (because I will die happy in this Holy Cathedral), and the myriad of ill
> > and dying
> > pilgrims  who have made their way to Santiago, or tried to, throughout
> > the
> > centuries.
> > The book "Aventura y Muerte en el Camino de Santiago" (Adventure and
> > Death in
> > the Santiago Camino) by Valdivieso  Ausin, ISBN 84-8991-5-09-1, recounts
> > many
> > abundantly documented such pilgrimages and deaths.
> > I guess that neither faith, nor the heart ever changes.
> > The Archdiocese offered a Mass for the soul of the Italian pilgrim;  I
> > am
> > sure that many of us will add our prayers.
> >
> > Rosina
> >
>

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