Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1902 — Devout Mexican Woman. [ARTICLE]

Devout Mexican Woman.

In Mexico recently an attempt to per. form a vow made in illness resulted in death. A sick woman named, Tranqullina Kutierrez expired while attempting to walk from Mexico to the Temple of Guadalupe, in accordance with a vow made while at the point Of death. The woman, who was very ill, made a vow to the Virgin of Gaudalupe that if she recovered she would make the journey to the church on foot and from the church door to the altar on her knees. Feeling somewhat better, , she thought the time had come tp fulfill her vow, and set out, in an extremely weak condition, accompanied by a small niece of 10 years. After covering half the distance her strength failed and she rapidly became worse. The child applied to a neighboring house for aid, the charitable inmates taking the sick woman in and caring for her until the end came. The account of her suffering and religious vow was learned from the child. An order of things determined according to an unvaried, universal law. —Kant