Mahaut du Boisguéheneuc, 23, from Poitiers (Vienne) was killed on Sunday July 30 in a car accident on her way to Angers with two friends (injured in the accident), from where they had to join a group leaving for World Youth Day (WYD) in Lisbon (Portugal). The funeral of the young girl will be celebrated on Friday August 4 at the Saint-Pierre cathedral in Poitiers, announce her parents, brothers and sisters, family and friends in a notice published in La Croix. Mahaut” joined the Lord in His light “and leaves his loved ones” in the pain of his loss and in the joy of his birth in heaven “they write, asking those present at the funeral mass not to wear” dark outfits “.
” We want to tell the parents, Mahaut’s family and all of his loved ones, all our pain and associate ourselves with their pain, wrote Mgr Pascal Wintzer, Archbishop of Poitiers, and Mgr Emmanuel Delmas, Bishop of Angers, in a press release. ATith all the young people of our dioceses present at WYD, we will pray for Mahaut, so that the Lord may welcome her in his peace and bring strength and consolation to his loved ones to get through this drama. We also pray for her injured friends and for the other person injured in the accident. »
Mahaut’s funeral will take place as nearly a million young people gather in Lisbon for World Youth Day. ” Friday, with the group of pilgrims from Poitiers, we will pray for her and for her family. “, specifies with La Croix Mgr Wintzer, present in Lisbon.
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