Posted on 09/18/2006 10:43:02 AM PDT by PanzerKardinal
NAIROBI, Kenya Sister Leonella, a nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in volatile regions of Africa, used to joke that there was a bullet with her name engraved on it in Somalia. When the bullet came, she used her last breaths to forgive those responsible.
"I forgive, I forgive," she whispered in her native Italian just before she died, the Rev. Maloba Wesonga told The Associated Press at the nun's memorial mass in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Monday.
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We beseech Thee, O Lord, according to thy loving-kindness, have mercy upon the soul of Thy handmaiden Leonella, and now that she is set free from the defilements of this mortal flesh, restore her to her heritage of everlasting slavation. Though Christ our Lord. Amen
Beatiful prayer----as was her dying words.
BEAUTIFUL----Requiescat in pacem Leonella
Once again, we see the REAL Religion of Peace in action, as opposed to the self-proclaimed "Religion of Peace". . .
The Sister died EXCEEDINGLY well, and both in and with grace. . .
The difference between Christianity and the ideology of death and destruction. She asked for forgiveness for them, they screamed death threats through their blood-stained fangs.
Islam shows the world how to kill, Christians show the world how to die. Thank you, Leonella, for teaching me so much at the hour of your death. May the soul of Leonella rest in eternal peace and bliss, through Christ our Lord, amen.
Sounds like a martyr to me...
Incredible, and true, quote.
Sister Leonella, Martyr of Christ, pray for us.
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