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Killed by lightning while at prayer

Headstone set into wall of former abbey charnel house, Bury St Edmunds.

 

"Here lies Interred the Body of

MARY HASELTON

A Young Maiden of this Town.

Born of Roman Catholic Parents

And Virtuously brought up.

Who being in the Act of Prayer

Repeating Her Vespers,

Was instantaneously killed by a flash of lightning August the 16th 1786,

Aged 9 Years."

 

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