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SANTIAGO DE CUBA.-Mariana Grajales Cuello, the woman who, with the surrender of 12 of her children and herself to the struggle for independence, will leave us a beautiful page that preaches history from the country to become the mother of Cubans, received on the anniversary of his birth the homage of our people to the cemetery of Santa Ifigenia
Born in this city on July 12, 1815, so much integrity s & # He settled in Jamaica at the end of the Ten Years' War, continued with his ideas and example inspiring the revolutionary cause, until his death on November 27, 1893 in Kingston, from where his remains were brought. in April 1923.
"What was there in this woman," wrote the Apostle José Martí in the Patria- newspaper, what an epic and mystery there was in this humble woman, what holiness and anointing there was in the belly of his mother, what decorum and what grandeur there was in his simple life that and it is written about her, it is like the soul, with the sweetness of a son, and of an endearing affection? "
Faithful to this feeling, a floral offering of roses, gladiolas and lilies in the name of the Cuban people was placed in front of its funerary monument to the ephemerides, a detachment of seven women members of the FAR ceremonies, which also honor Martí, Céspedes and Fidel in the necropolis of Santiago
Led by the First Party Secretary in the municipality of Santiago, Niurka Bell Calzado, and the Secretary General of the FMC in the territory, Sunilda Montes de Oca Tito, federated women, fighters of the Revolution and other badistants, placed roses in the grave of the famous woman, located since October 10, 2017 on the path of the founders of Cuban nationality.
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