In 1891 Jose Marti wrote a wonderful poem to Orestes Ferrara's wife, Maria Luisa Sanches, in Tampa (Ibor City,) Florida. The poem sound beautiful in Sapanish. For the English translation you be the judge.
To Maria Luisa Sanches: There
is only one consolation The
morning has no rival I
say, my slender girl, Jose Marti |
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To Maria Luisa Sanches: No
hay en la bárbara guerra No
hay rival de la mañana Yo
diré, mi niña esbelta, |
Jose
Marti |
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The
Founding Father of Cuba |
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Maria Luisa was born and raised in The United States of America by Cuban immigrant parents that moved to the States for political reasons in the second half of the 1800s. The family was completely devoted to the emancipation of the Cuban people from the Spanish Colony yoke. Scroll down . . . |
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Maria Luisa
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Orestes Ferrara met Maria Luisa Sanchez in Ibor-City, Tampa, Florida, USA on his way to Cuba in 1896. It was love at first sight. They were married for more that seventy years. Truly soul mates. Scroll down . . . |
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Maria
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When Maria Luisa and Orestes met they were so taken with each other that moments before Orestes boarded the ship that was about to take him to Cuba--so he could fight in the Cuban Independence War (Spanish-American War) against the Spanish Colony--he whispered in her ear with his heavy Italian accent: "If I come back alive from the war, I'll marry you." Scroll down . . . |
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Fredesvinda & Maria
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The Sanchez
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Orestes kept his promise and married the gorgeous Cuban American lady named Maria Luisa Sanchez, immediately after the Spanish American War victory. Maria Luisa spent the rest of her live at Orestes side. They were together more than seventy years. Talking about promises!!! Scroll down . . . |
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Maria
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Dauntless |
This
ship was the one that took Orestes Ferrara to fight in the Spanish
American War in 1896 when he was 20 years old.
Upon boarding the vassal he said to Maria Luisa -- "If I come back alive from the war, I'll marry you.". |
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Fredesvinda
Sanchez was maried to Cuban Independence war Colonel Carlos Aguirre. When the usher ordered him to move the third time, Carlitos told the usher that he will move in a couple of minutes. The bullfigher plunged his sowrd into the bull while Carlitos talked to the lady. When the bull felt the sowrd entering its flesh, he jerked his head so strong that the sword flu into the air stabbing Carlitos right in his heart killing him. Since that horrific day in 1923, Carlitos mother, Fredesvinda, always dressed in black and went everyday to his tomb until her death in 1966.
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Sisters Fredesvinda & Maria Luisa Sanchez Ferrara | |||
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