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Little Maria Ho Thi Thien An, now four, was saved by her father from being buried alive with her dead mother when she was just seven days old. (UCA News)
Thien An (God’s grace) now lives happily at a center for orphans and poor children run by the Daughters of Our Lady Immaculate nuns in Hue.
Sister Magdalene Nguyen Thi Lien De, who is in charge of her congregation’s charitable work, says Thien An’s mother died in childbirth and her relatives planned to bury them together in the evening in accordance with tribal tradition.
But Thien An’s father secretly brought her to the nuns and asked them to bring up his daughter. The nuns based at A Luoi parish near his village rented a bus and carried the infant to their center based in Hue city, 70 kilometers away, for health care.
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Nuns save ethnic infants from the grave (UCA News)
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