Pious child of God, with all that such a virtue can entail: a good mother, wife and grandmother who sacrificed herself at every step for the benefit of her children, and grandchildren, who inspired in them dreams she could not experience or even fathom; a strength of mind that was innate, not acquired; a soul perfected by striving and suffering, expiated of sin through the pains of illness and love --- by the grace and mercy of God ...
