Little Sister Magdeleine's Death
Little Sister Magdeleine died on the 6 November 1989 at Tre Fontane, Rome, in a little room prepared to welcome young people travelling the roads.
Her funeral and farewell Mass (during which the Gospel was sung in Arabic) took place in the open air in Tre Fontane on November 10, 1989 - the day the Berlin Wall fell.
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