The Story of Silvia Aguilar Gonzalez, Mexico's Unknown Pro-Life 'Saint' Matthew Cullinan Hoffman - LifeSiteNews.com
go to original August 25, 2013

Maria Hernandez at the death bed of Silvia Aguilar Gonzalez, who sacrificed everything to welcome and care for a child that was not her own. (LifeSiteNews.com)

GUADALAJARA - Five years have passed since Silvia Aguilar Gonzalez, a housekeeper from a small town in the Mexican state of Jalisco, passed away from brain cancer at the age of 37, abandoned by all of her immediate family, and completely destitute.  It was the price she had paid, willingly and joyfully, for saving an unborn child from abortion.

For five years, I have kept Silvia's story to myself, waiting for an opportunity for more interviews and documentation that I was never able to obtain after losing contact with witnesses.  After so long a delay,  I believe the time has come to tell her story based on the information I received from conversations with Silvia's close friend, Maria Hernandez, as well as an in-law relative who was at her side as she died in 2008.

Silvia's suffering and joy began several years earlier, when her friend, Maria Hernandez, became pregnant by a boyfriend who refused to take responsibility for his child.  Maria wanted to have an abortion, a procedure that is illegal but sadly available in the city of Guadalajara, where the two were living and working.

Silvia and Maria were immigrants to Guadalajara from the same small town, and were laboring as housekeepers to send money back to their families, sharing the same apartment.  Their resources were meager, and their families unsupportive, but Silvia was unstinting in her determination to save Maria's unborn child.

"Your child is going to live," Silvia insisted to her friend. "We will care for it together."

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