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here than at home.”
    â€œThen we shall be very honoured to have him. His healing powers and the help he has given to so many has aroused a great admiration amongst those who worship at the Shrine and we would be happy for his body to remain with us.”
    â€œThen I am sure that is what he would want too,” added Attila.
    The Father Superior left her to give his instructions and Attila sat down to wait for his return.
    She had made a significant decision when she was walking behind the guards carrying Father Jozsef.
    It would be a grave mistake for her to say who she was as someone in charge would insist on arranging for her to be escorted back to the Palace because she was a Royal.
    â€˜I will just return quietly by myself with Lamos and Kilkos,’ she decided. ‘I want to think and have no wish to take strangers with me or, for that matter, an armed guard.’
    When the Father Superior returned, he took her into the little Chapel where Father Jozsef had already been put into a simple coffin.
    There were two large candles burning on each side of it with flowers on the floor.
    Attila was able to look at Father Jozsef, which she had not been able to do previously, and there was a radiance in his face that she had never seen before.
    She realised it was because his soul had been united with the woman he had always loved.
    She knelt down beside his coffin and prayed that he should bless her as he had done when he was alive.
    She begged him to bring her eventually to the same happiness he had found.
    The young Priest who was attending on her told her that Father Jozsef’s funeral would take place at dawn the next morning.
    â€œWe will take it in turns to pray here tonight,” he said, “but the Father Superior thought you would wish to return to those who are with you before darkness sets in.”
    â€œThat is very gracious of His Reverence and I hope he will permit me to bring Father Jozsef’s two servants, not only to the Chapel to see him but to attend the funeral.”
    â€œThe Father Superior has thought of that and two of our men will care for your horses while they are away.”
    Attila thought that no one could be kinder or more considerate.
    She spent a long time praying beside Father Jozsef in the Chapel.
    Then she went back to the carriage to break the sad news to Lamos and Kilkos.
    There were tears in both their eyes and Lamos said,
    â€œIt was the way Father Jozsef would have liked to have gone. He was afraid of being decrepit like some of the people he treated. Several times he said to me ‘I want to die while I am still active and my brain functions as it should do’.”
    â€œHe was granted his wish,” added Attila wistfully.
    She did not inform them of his dying words, as she felt that his love for Marie was a very personal matter and they would not have known her in the first place.
    She was only glad that Father Jozsef had trusted her enough to tell her all about his lost love.
    It merely confirmed what she had always believed, that there is no such thing as death and that Heaven exists.
    If she had needed confirmation nothing could have been more miraculous than the joy in his voice and the radiance on his face as he died.
    Now the two lovers, separated from each other for so long, were together again.
    â€˜That is the love I want. Please God give it to me,’ Attila prayed when she went back to the Chapel.
    The Monks had brought in more flowers and there were candles on the altar and round the coffin.
    Attila knelt down quietly at the altar as the young men who served at the Shrine were coming in to kneel and say a prayer.
    She had a strong feeling that each of them left believing they had been blessed by Father Jozsef.
    The sun was sinking lower in the sky.
    So she now returned to the place where Lamos and Kilkos were waiting for her.
    Attila did not feel like talking, so she ate the dinner which Lamos had prepared for her alone by the