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Oh, God, help me right now please. There is no time… Life is much shorter then what we poor fools think…
That when you want you may come and get us and take us from this land where we have had to live. Help me to find you. Open wide my eyes and my heart.
In the end the only thing in her head was God and knowing how to fulfill His will.
I don’t know, and I don’t want to know the plans that you have for me, your will in me. But I only ask you one thing: that whatever it may be, you give me the necessary strength to accept it and fulfill it. May it never cause me to apart myself from you. But may the ropes that tie me to you grow stronger and stronger. I only let you be the one who guides me. Only you, my God.
Effectively, Marta was stripped of everything: studies, boyfriend… she was left alone…with God. She had an intuition that her end was near and that did not have much time to fulfill the will of God in her life.
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That night, feast day of St. Agnes, virgin and martyr, God in His inscrutable designs permitted Marta to be approached by the heartless wretch who would take her life. With her last breath she resisted heroically and fought to defend her chastity. This is what motivated the brutal assassination.
A few days later her body was found. The news appeared in the newspaper. Fr. José, cannon of the cathedral, when he read the news, left his breakfast still on the table and made his way to the morgue. When he entered, Marta’s mother asked him if he had come to pray for Marta, but the priest replied that he hadn’t, that he had come to ask for her intercession.
Her placid and serene face surprised people after the violent way that she had died. On her sweet countenance a bruise could be seen similiar to and on the same side as the one on Jesus’ face in the Holy Shroud.
A few days before, Marta had talked with a friend about the songs that she would like to be sung in her funeral. Among them was the song “Ven del Líbano, esposa” . The words of this song are from the book of the Song of Songs (chapter 4 and on). As it is in fact a wedding song, the person who was in charge of playing the guitar for the funeral, did not feel capable of doing it. However when she played it, she commented that any other song would not have been suitable.
Above the resting place of Marta’s body the following phrase is written: “Because we are all just passing through this world.”