Independent press media in Cuba, users on social networks as well as the official magazine Alma mater reported the death, which occurred between Friday night and Saturday morning, of the son of Omar Quintero, who was known a few months ago as “the payer of promises.” Lázaro Quintero died at the age of 36 due to cancer.
“Today we learned of the death of Lázaro, son of Omar, the payer of promises. Alma mater joins the sadness for the loss of the boy”, reported the official Cuban publication.
?? With his walk for more than 800 kilometers, Omar Quintero Monte de Oca kept a promise he made for the health of one of his sons, Lázaro.
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??https://t.co/ESe9xTZGG9#Cuba #ThePromisePayer #Alma mater #PeopleOfTheSoul– Alma Mater Magazine (@AlmaMater_Rev) June 4, 2022
The Cubans followed through social networks and live the walk that their father made between February and March from Havana to the El Cobre sanctuary in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba (about 900 kilometers) to ask the Virgin of Charity for the your child’s health.
Upon returning to his home in the popular neighborhood of Los Pocitos, in the Havana municipality of Marianao, the 56-year-old man told Eph his experience in the journey that began “alone” and from the middle of the way became a national event.
His son Lázaro, a young worker in the health sector, was diagnosed 11 years ago with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer that forms in the lymphatic system. The disease had affected his lungs and the doctors estimated him only a few months to live.
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That was the moment when Omar promised “to God and to the Virgin of Charity that if they saved him he would go to El Cobre on foot”, in reference to the well-known sanctuary and which involved crossing almost from side to side the Island of Cuba.
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