That photo corresponds to a nurse, who was synonymous with self-sacrifice, sacrifice, and love for one’s fellow man. Her name was Florence Nightingale and she is the girl I mentioned at the beginning.
He was born in Florence, Italy, to English parents, who happened to be in that Italian city.
Hence the girl’s name.
She was like a woman, brilliant, tenacious and passionate about good, as well as elegant and very beautiful.
It was a kind of individual Red Cross, if the expression fits.
He only cared about the pain and not the nationality of the sufferer.
He was born in 1820. His family was in a very comfortable economic position.
When the Crimean War broke out between France and Russia, England, his true homeland, had a military alliance with France.
Florence Nightingale was 28 years old. She had been running the London Hospital for Invalid Women for a year now.
He did it without receiving remuneration -like everything he did- not only because of his material solvency, but especially because of his spiritual wealth.
Because many gave. But some, like Florence, lived to give…
And with that feeling, he asked his parents for permission to go to that region of Asia –Russian Crimea- to create an emergency hospital in the war zone, where the English army, an ally of France, was fighting, as I have already stated.
Let’s clarify that there was a law in England, by which every single woman and Florence was, who wanted to be absent from the country, had to obtain parental consent.
In one of her books –she wrote several- she reproduces the dialogue with her father.
-Father, I need to be where many of our countrymen will need me and I am English by choice.
– No, Florence. You are a woman –and young- and you do not have to give your heart –and perhaps your life- having others who will do it for you.
She perhaps thought at that time. Giving your heart is not spending it. It’s like reliving it. And the father added:
-Besides, daughter, there will be specialized people, doctors, etc., who will do this task better than you.
She responded in turn:
-Excuse me father, many doctors can heal bodies. I feel empowered to heal too, souls.
Florencia, faced with her father’s fierce opposition, forged his signature – what a display of personality! -She gathered 38 nurses and left for the distant Asian continent.
“Because just as there are those who are born to create pain, there are those who are born to mitigate it.”
There he organized emergency hospitals in ambulances, stopped the epidemic contagion and implanted with intelligence and energy, various sanitary measures.
After the war he went to India, not to give lectures, but to collaborate with his personal effort.
He put healing missionaries in very poor Hindu villages and, fighting with the Hindu government, obtained something fundamental that they lacked: water.
Back in London, she founded the first nursing school. He directed it for more than 30 years.
But Florence Nightingale had a personal physical struggle.
A notorious visual decline, from a very young age, made his task difficult.
At age 60 he could no longer read. She lived totally blind for the last 10 of her 90 years of life.
And Florence Nightingale, who always knew “that breathing is not living”, brings to mind this aphorism that her nobility inspired me.
“If we were all hurt by the pain of our neighbor, there would be almost no pain.”
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