Crowds gathered on Tuesday (Dec.5) to bid the last farewell to the 14-year-old Natalia who had died last week in Poland's southern town of Andrychów. The circumstances of the teenager's tragic death shook everyone in Poland.
The funeral was held in St. Matthias the Apostle Parish in Andrychów, a small town southwest of Kraków. In a eulogy for Natalia, her father thanked rescue service workers from Wadowice and Kraków who had tried to save his girl.
"Natalka was someone who would enrich our lives with incredible passion and a plethora of talents. Natalia was an artist in the broadest sense of the word - she loved drawing, capturing moments in photographs, and sharing her beauty with the world around her," the girl's relatives said.
Father Stanisław Czernik, who conducted the requiem mass, compared Natalia's father to the biblical Job. "Dear Grzegorz, dear family, today we join you in your great pain. Words won't describe what she was like. Good, humble, and quiet. We are joined in incommensurable agony. It is our fate to bid farewell to such a young person, but let's not despair. For death does not end life, but only its worldly part," the priest said.
Teenager's tragic death
The police received a call about a missing 14-year-old girl from Andrychów on Tuesday morning (Nov.28). Natalia was supposed to go to the nearby town of Kęty, but she had called her father and told him she did not feel good and did not know where she was. The father notified the police and an information about a missing child was published. The girl was found shortly after by a friend of the family and then taken to a hospital.
Natalia was transported to the University Children’s Hospital in Kraków. She was in hypothermia, her body temperature was only 22 degrees Celsius. The doctors could not save her life. The preliminary autopsy results revealed that the teenager had suffered from a severe brain hemorrhage.
Źródło: TVN24 News in English, TVN24 Kraków