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On June 21st, 2010... 

Manuel celebrated his last birthday, and told his friends: 

'Jesus let me see Paradise, and it’s a wonderful place, a beautiful banquet prepared by Jesus. Jesus told me that I would die when I was nine, and that now I should suffer a little for Him. Afterwards, I will appear to Mom and my loved ones, and I will be touched and embraced by them.'

The last days of his agony arrived. 

His hemoglobin levels went down to a historical low. 

The doctors stopped giving him transfusions, because there was no hope. To the doctors’ amazement, the heart of this 'warrior' continued to beat for four more days. 

His mother understood immediately. 'Manuel, you made another agreement with Jesus, didn’t you?' The little boy affirmed with a gesture. He clearly offered his last drops of blood for someone whose name will never be known.

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He gave his mother precise instructions... 

for the day of his death: 

that day he would wear his First Communion suit, and instead of a pillow for his head, he would rest on a Bible opened to the passage of Jeremiah 17:14 in which it is written: 

Yahweh, heal me, and I will be well.

Save me, and I will be safe. 

For all the glory is Yours.

He also said that she shouldn’t cry and that no one should cry. But rather, that they should be recollected in prayer, so that his funeral could reflect the great feast he was going to live in Heaven.

July 20th was his last day on earth. 

He was lying on his bed with his Rosary tightly held in his hands. 

Mass was celebrated in his room. 

After receiving Communion, he whispered, 'I have finished.'

During terrible suffering one night, two months before he died, he had said to his mother, 'You are my only true witness. You will have to write a lot of books about me, so that everyone can come to know my story.' 

It was not easy for her to keep her promise because of all the pain she suffered after her son passed away, but in the end love had the last word. Enza wrote Manuel: The Little Warrior of Light, based on the diary she wrote during the long illness. 

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