A MOTHER'S VOW.
LIFE FOR HER SON'S.
RE-UNION AND PARTING
(Australian and N.Z. Cable" Assn.) (Received Dec. 2G, 9.55 a.m.) MADRID, December 25..
\ tragic story of a mother's sacrifice has just been revealed here. Senpra Leonoro Grau was deeply affected at her husband's death, and besought the famous Virgin del Carmel io protect her* son, who was fighting in Morocco, and vowed to offer her own life on condition that her son was spared. The son returned, and was demobilised last Monday. His mother welcomed him with transports .of joy and they supped gaily together. The mother put her son to bed as in the day of bis childhood, prayed with him, and blessed him, saying'" The Holy Virgin del Carmcl brought you back; now it is my turn to accomplish my vow, made if she spared your life." The son attached no importance to the words, being in complete ignorance of the tragic nature of them.. The, mother spent IheMiight in prayer before the Virgin's image, and then drowned herself in the River Terue, where her body was later recovered*
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16174, 27 December 1924, Page 5
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