Una desgracia-un rayo mata a una moja

Abstract

The image presents a news about: "the day of all saints has been marked in Bogota with a strong storm that has been victimized a nun of the monastery of Santa Clara who unexpectedly touched the bells of the tower at 2 pm. The electric cloud made its explosion at that time, and a river of electricity was discharged on the tower leaving dead on the site that religious who was a native of Honda, and was called Buenaventura de la Guardia. Serve this new and unfortunate event of warning to avoid ringing the bells when a storm threatens, because the ringing of metal and the vibration it makes in the air, is the most direct conductor of electricity. In other houses circumstances to the monastery, fell in the same afternoon another rays, without making new victims , or causing more damage than the one left to his passage". Published in the newspaper El Catolicismo.No.133, November 5-1853