What a waste of a life!
103-year-old nun to leave convent for first time in 84 years to meet Pope
For the last 84 years she has spent every day of her life behind the
cloistered walls of a convent to the north of Madrid but on Friday Sister
Teresita, aged 103, will venture into the world outside – to meet the Pope.
Sister Teresita, 103, will venture into the world outside to meet the Pope
Fiona Govan
The sprightly centenarian has been confined within the convent of Buenafuente
del Sistal since she took her vows as a 19 year old, two years before the
Wall Street Crash.
By strange coincidence she entered the convent on April 16, 1927 – the day
that Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, was born in Germany.
Sister Teresita has remained at the convent ever since leaving its seclusion
for only a few hours at a time during the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War when
the nuns fled to escape the fighting.
But on Friday she will join a delegation to meet Pope Benedict during his
three day visit to the Spanish capital to celebrate World Youth Day.
"She said she thinks she will make the trip with her eyes closed, so that
nothing will distract her," said the convent's mother superior, Maria.
Sister Teresita was the subject of a book entitled "What is a girl like
you doing in a place like that", which the author Jesus Garcia
recounted the lives of 10 nuns in the convent,
"Who can spend 84 years in a convent without being happy? You feel
happiness when you follow your vocation."
More than a million pilgrims have flooded in the capital for five days of
events that began yesterday evening with a concert and will culminate on
Sunday when the Pope celebrates an open air mass at an airfield in
southwestern Madrid.
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