Spanish man on pilgrimage to give thanks for recovery from car crash is run over and killed a mile into journey

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Spanish man on pilgrimage to give thanks for recovery from car crash is run over and killed a mile into journey

A year earlier, he had been injured in a road accident and made a full recovery.

So the man decided to make a pilgrimage to a shrine to give thanks for his survival – only to be knocked down and killed by a car less than a mile into his trek.

The 40-year-old Spanish man died instantly after being hit by the vehicle just 20 minutes into his journey.
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Réquiem ætérnam dona eis, Dómine,
et lux perpétua lúceat eis.
Requiéscant in pace. Amen.
 
The Lord gave and the Lord took away. Very book of Job.

I mean this in all seriousness, not making light of the situation.
 
A man went searching for God, and what has happened is he had found him, he has made the ultimate pilgrimage and God has called him home.
 
The three people killed were Maria Isabel Gomez Villaverde, 59, her sister, Jesusa Guillin Monk, 49, and a nephew of both Juncal Antonio Gomez, 40 The family is well-known in the town of Ordes, which has a population of 12,000.

Three thousand people attended their funeral. It was so crowded, several hundred had to listen outdoors via loudspeaker. Three priests conducted the funeral, normally only one is present. The entire town is shocked and grieving.

lavozdegalicia.es/galicia/2011/08/29/0003_201108G29P5991.htm
(article is written in a dialect of Spanish)
 
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