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| Sister Agnes Mariam de la Croix |
The
Patriarch of Lisbon was recently given three bullets which were used to kill
Christians in Syria.
The
bullets were brought by sister Agnes Mariam de la Croix, an outspoken Syrian
Melkite nun.
According
to the nuns, when jihadists entered the town of Maloula they went house to
house. A young Christian lady was hiding with her family in their house and
three men were outside to try and protect the home. When the terrorists
arrived, she heard them demand that the youngest man declare himself a Muslim.
He replied: “I am a Christian, I want to live like a Christian and die a
Christian.” He was shot on the spot.
The
terrorists then asked the other young man, a cousin of the first, and warned
him “look at what happened to him”. He replied that he too wanted to die a
Christian, and was subsequently shot.
The
third man, an uncle of the first two, didn’t even wait to be asked, he just
declared: “I am a Christian, shoot me”. And he was shot.
The
woman, who had recently had a dream of Our Lady in which the Blessed Mother
handed her three red flowers, then had a vision of Saint Anthony of Padua (born
in Lisbon), protecting the rest of the family who, as it turned out, were
unharmed.
The
bullets used to kill the three Christians were salvaged by the nuns and three
of them were now given to the Patriarch of Lisbon, for him to give to the shrine
of Our Lady of Fatima.
Sister
Agnes also decries the fact that Christians in the Middle East are afraid to
speak up, whereas Muslims in Europe are free to do so.
In this
interview, which you can watch here Sister
Agnes speaks in French, and the video is subtitled in Portuguese.
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