Presentation nun Burgos Lopez has proved Vivar seriously injured in Rutshuru (Republic of the Congo) because the explosion of a bomb, forcing doctors to both legs amputated, has reported Pontifical Mission Societies.
At the moment, is in one of the hospitals available to Doctors Without Borders in Rutshuru in the east, where they are registering heavy clashes between rebel forces and the army loyal to President Joseph Kabila.
Missionary wound belongs to the Institute of Sisters of St. Joseph of Girona, born in Tobar (Burgos) 64 years ago, and has been for several years missionary in Rwanda. Today he was doing his work in the Congo where he is now also a few years.
At the time of the impact of the bomb, also was with her the missionary Clementina (Urban) Sancho Herrera, who was born in Castrillo de Murcia (Burgos), which does not appear anything happened to him. Also with them were two nuns Congolese who are with their families.
Presentation Viva Lopez takes fourteen years in this country that was on a voluntary basis, and if you can, you will return because that is his calling. This has been explained to the agency Efe Hermenegildo Santamaria's sister, also in Burgos, a member of the Provincial Council of the Institute of Sisters of St. Joseph of Gerona, a community in which the injured.
Sister Hermenegildo Santamaria has expressed his hope that Lopez Presentation recovers well, because "it appears" that the greatest danger may have passed. When the incident occurred, the sister Presentation was in a Commonwealth comprising a total of five nuns, she went for a while, but now it had ceased to play this role, has clarified the sister Hermenegildo Santamaria.
"He has always enjoyed a very missionary spirit, and when the war ended in Rwanda, voluntarily" asked to develop their task in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "She has this very mission in the soul, is very generous, with a few things going on, is very brave, always dignified follower of the mother foundress of the institution, Sister Mary Gay, and the Lord has to be the reward for their dedication forever, "as described by the religious sister Hermenegildo wound.
He also recalled how, in addition to remain for a time in Equatorial Guinea, his task was to develop in different parts of Spain, including Barcelona and Madrid, where he attended the Diploma of Nursing. Sister Hermenegildo Santamaria, who expects the missionary wound can return to Spain soon, possibly tomorrow and after tomorrow, has highlighted the help that has given to the religious community both the Spanish Embassy in the Democratic Republic of Congo as in the Bishopric the same country.
"They have behaved very well" since both agencies and also the doctors and nurses who undertake the care of the health of the brotherly Presentation after the explosion. The injured missionary sister also has a religious, in this case nun closing, along with other secular brothers, who already know the news of the event, although probably not be moved until the African country and Spain will have to wait in the return of Presentation. Meanwhile, next to her, care, is also the sister Burgos Urban Sancho Herrera, who was born in the town of Castrillo de Murcia, which remains in good condition and likely will return to Spain with the sister wound.
Anyway, the two, Presentation and Urbana, "can be sure that if they want to go back," said Sister Hermenegildo, also comes in Burgos. It was precisely on the feast of St. Peter, patron of Burgos, which falls on June 29, when he began his mission the mother foundress of the Institute of Sisters of St. Joseph of Gerona, which is part of the Presentation, born in Tabar, a that is far village some 34 kilometers from Burgos in the capital and nearby residents of forty people.
"There are many vocations from this province" , has assured the sister Hermenegildo Santamaria. The Institute founded in 1813 by Mother Mary Gay, with a mission to "alleviate the pain and sow peace" and emerged from the nun who was visiting the sick, now available for missions in three continents. Within Africa, the Institute of Sisters of St. Joseph of Gerona has a presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Rwanda and Equatorial Guinea.
In America, is present in colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, Ecuador and Argentina, while in Europe, they operate in Spain, Italy and France. In total, there are about more than the four sisters who belong at present to the Institute of Sisters of St. Joseph of Gerona, has summarized the sister Hermenegildo, after ensuring that, from their religious community, not just pray for the recovery of Presentation, but also by all people who suffer.
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