Posted on 09/03/2011 10:33:57 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
A year earlier, he had been injured in a road accident and made a full recovery.
So the man decided to make a pilgrimage to a shrine to give thanks for his survival – only to be knocked down and killed by a car less than a mile into his trek.
The 40-year-old Spanish man died instantly after being hit by the vehicle just 20 minutes into his journey.
Two women walking with him were also killed in the accident.
The pilgrim left his home in the town of Ordes, in north-west Spain, on Saturday morning.
He planned to walk the 20 miles to Caion so that he could give thanks at the shrine of the Virgin Mary.
A spokesman for Ordes town hall told French news agency AFP: 'He had been injured in a road accident a year earlier and wanted to give thanks to the Virgin Mary for making a full recovery.
'But he was tragically hit by a car barely a mile into his journey and died instantly.
'Two women walking with him, believed to be his aunts, were also killed.'
It is thought the three victims were making the journey as part of a group of six pilgrims.
An Ordes police spokesman said the driver of the car had probably fallen asleep at the wheel and that an investigation into the accident had been opened.
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The Creator must love irony.
Poor folks, Terrible!!!
Prayers for the families and for the driver who killed them.
Damn. Talk about rotten luck. RIP.
Now that is a sad, sad story. Prayers for all.
This story is highly suspicious...no detail whatsoever. Sounds like urban legend to me.
Agree- someone’s trying a cheap shot to mock religion from this terrible accident.
It's not irony, it's obedience! He and his group decided to worship idols and give thanks to idols, rather than to God.
3. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
6. And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Your ignorance and Anti-Catholic rantings are breathtaking.
Catholics do not worship idols you dolt.
It only took seven posts for a snake handler to arrive on the scene.
In Catholic doctrine, is there such a thing as an anti-Miracle?
This pilgrimage had a stairway to heaven included in the trip package but his travel agent forgot to send him the memo.
That sounds rather like the fatalistic muslim creed. Insha'Allah!
Personally, I reject such a mindset. (I might have missed a sarcastic undertone in your post, though.)
God did it for the lulz...
"As God wills," is a perfectly reasonable Christian sentiment: Our Lord bade us pray "Thy will be done." "Insha'allah" comes out rather different when the God whose will is being done is the One Who gave His Only-Begotten Son, the Divine Logos, Who is love, transcending the distinction between transcendence and immanence in the Incarnation to unite our nature to His, rather than the capricious oriental tyrant, imprisoned in his own transcendence so that he cannot reveal himself, only his arbitrary will, that the Mohammedans imagine.
And, yes, Arabic speaking Christians call the All-Holy Trinity "Allah", when speaking Arabic. They do not, however, engage in the Mohammedan conceit of fancying that the Arabic word for God (allah, formed by eliding the definite article al with the generic word for (a) god, ilah, to indicate the uniquely existing God in the same way the definite article 'o applied to the Greek theos, indicates the uniquely existing God) is God's proper name, so they call Him "God" when speaking English, "Gott" when speaking German and so forth.
We all have to die. Pilgrimage is a choice.
People have been dying on pilgrimages since the early days of Christianity. It is a risk all pilgrims freely undertake, to a greater or lesser extent.
Having reached the end of this journey, may they now sleep in peace.
Guy: “God, to show my thanks, I am going on a pilgrimage.”
God: “Uh, no need to, uh, thank Me now. I, uh, have plans for you.”
That isn't the God I know and love. My God is infinitely forgiving and, because He is perfect, could not be guilty of such a petty human emotion as jealousy.
My first thought when I saw the title—he was giving thanks to someone other than the Lord.
I saw this movie. They were on a bus on a bridge. Should have died. The grim reaper then came to collect the souls he was owed. What was the name of that movie again?
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