VOSHN 332

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="310"><tr><td class="etesti">310</td><td class="edate">Mid-August and after, 1945.</td><td class="eage">46 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>Ave Maria gratia plena.</td></tr></table><div class="large"><p>Miss Meriko, a daughter of Mr.Fukumatu Tagawa, was lying next to me.Darling Meri was praying all through the night.  She was a first year student of our school.  That little girl, aged 13, repeated the hym to the Holy Virgin through the night.</p><p>  Ave Maria gratia plena,</p><p>  Ora pro nobis peccatoribus,</p><p>  Ora pro nobis nunc</p><p>  Et in hora mortis nostrae,</p><p>  Ave Maria, Amen!</p><p>During the pray, she often vomited a lump of blood which looks like a black cotton ball.  There was no lamp.  She passed away, praying in darkness.  Her voice was that from a prayer, not from a patient who complains of pain.</p><br><p>All thirty-eight children died there while they were singing a sacred song.  Their last time was beautiful and noble.  Their fathers and mothers were watching this scene, and told me, "My daughter passed the most beautiful last time.  I appreciate it."</p><br><p>Christians of Nagasaki were marvelous.  I was convinced that my policy of education for ten years was correct.  Further we should glitter - - -.</p></div></body>