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Soon enough she was to feel thesharpness of pain and understood the redemptive value of suffering. At the age of 12 she fell victim to a mysterious disease that no physician was able to diagnose. For health reasons, after four yearsliving in Alfamén (Zaragoza), she returned to the City of Zaragoza, where she began to work in a shoe factory. She was dearly loved by all in the factory, as much for her simple character and naturalkindness, as her goodness and work ethic. Nevertheless, the Lord wanted to take her down other paths and she began to feel the mystery of the Cross. María Pilar so loved suffering that she was often heardto say, “In this suffering I find a love so great toward our Jesus, that I at once die and do not die…because that love is that which makes me live.”
In 1926 while returning from work she fell froma streetcar and broke her pelvis. In 1929, she became paraplegic and blind as a result of a large number of cysts. This would be the beginning of a painful path she would take for twelve years from...
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