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Remembrances of Bishops and Priests Who Knew Mother Luisita
"I was very fortunate to have
personally known Mother Luisita and to be aware of her virtues.
At all times Mother Luisita was recognized as a saint."
Leonardo Viera Contreras
Bishop of Ciudad Guzman, Mexico
1977
"I knew Mother Luisita personally. She left this world leaving a
great reputation of holiness. She practiced the Christian virtues
with extraordinary fidelity, and especially her constant charity
toward the poor and sick."
--Francisco Javier, Nuno
Archbishop de San Juan de Los Lagos, Mexico 1977
"What was Mother Luisita to her Carmelite Sisters? She was an angel
who, through her example and virtues, modeled the sweet aspect of
the religious sisters in her Congregation.
She spent her whole soul, her whole fortune, and also her body in
the Congregation she founded which has given so much glory to God,
to the church and to society.
She was a model religious, an unblemished superior, and a reservoir
of tenderness and charity for the whole world.
Her main virtues were: Modesty, abnegation, piety and constancy,
but what was most outstanding about her is that she left in her
magnificent work, her whole exquisite personality and all the sweetness
of her incomparable charity."
--Father Macario Velazquez Abarca,
Canon of the Cathedral of Guadalajara
1959
""There was no human or spiritual misery that would not find a compassionate
echo in her Christian heart. The qualifying adjectives of good,
holy, pious, charitable sprang spontaneously from all who knew and
interacted with her.
I remember how my family would comment upon an expression of Father
Macario Velazquez Abarca who for many years was the pastor of Atotonilco
el Alto and who knew and was well acquainted with Mother Luisita.
When she died, he said with all simplicity: "Why are you praying
to other saints? In your own family you have a great saint, "Mother
Luisita."
Salvador Angulo Navaro,
Chancellor Secretary
Diocese of Villahermosa, Tabasco
1977
"I have a very vivid and pleasant image of Mother Luisita in my
mind. As a small child I served as an altar boy in the Chapel of
El Calvario and I saw her many times. I remember her smile full
of kindness, her words, her moderate conversation, and her edifying
attitude which inspired holiness.
I remember very well the expression on her face when, with great
compassion, she would speak of the poor. From what I and all the
persons of my time saw in Mother Luisita, I am convinced she was
a holy woman.
Jose Ruiz Navarro,
Canon of the Diocese of Jalapa, Mexico
1974
"In my opinion, Mother Luisita was an exceptional soul. Being already
a priest, I visited her several times. I always felt, after leaving
her convent, that I had been in the presence of a holy Religious."
Father Manuel Martinez,
Ocotlan, Jalisco, Mexico
1957
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