A VOW FULFILLED
A MOTHER’S SACRIFICE. GIVES HER LIFE. ; BECAUSE SON WAS SPARED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. (Received Dec. 27, 11.45 a.m.) MADRID, Dec. 25. A tragic story of a mother’s sacrifice has just been revealed here. Senora Leonara Grau was deeply affected at her husband’s death, and beseeched the famous Virgin Del Carmel to- protect her son, who was fighting in Morocco,' and vowed to offer her own life on condition that the son was spared. The, son returned, and was demobilise!. last Monday. The mother Welcomed him with transports of joy. They supped gaily together, and the mother put her son to bed as she did in the days of his childhood. She prayed and blessed him, saying “The Holy Virgin Del Carmel brought you back.” Now it is my turn' to accomplish the .vow. I made if she spared vour life.’’ The son attached no importance to the words, being in complete ignorance of the tragic nature of them: The mother spent the night in prayer before the Virgin’s image,' and then drowned herself in the river Terue; where the body was later recovered.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 December 1924, Page 5
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187A VOW FULFILLED Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 December 1924, Page 5
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