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Description: This memorial of Angela Baird describes her holy and courageous death after a fall from a 60 foot cliff. Angela's last hours were spent in prayer for the aborted Unborn.
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"The whole time she prayed with us instead of crying out from the great pain she was in." Jon Daly's letter to the Baird family As she lay waiting and dying, Angela prayed for two intentions specifically; aborted babies and her dad. She did not complain of the pain, she merely prayed the Rosary and to her guardian angel. The students, rescue workers, and medical staff who were with Angela in her last hours all were amazed at her courage and peaceful demeanor, despite the pain from a broken back, pelvis, arm
The paramedics carried her out of the ravine to a place where she could be lifted to the helicopter and flown to nearby Ventura County Hospital. Angela was still alert, with Jon's rosary still in her hand. At the hospital, Father Bartholomew de la Torre, a TAC chaplain, administered the Last Sacraments, and she was wheeled into surgery. Her heart stopped on the operating table, and could not be revived. It was 1:00 a.m. on November 6th.
The students at Thomas Aquinas have erected a hand-made, 6 foot cross above the spot where Angela fell and the trail has been diverted from the cliff. Since her death, the students have shared stories about Angela that give us (the Baird family) great consolation. In the two months prior to her death, Angela had begun to attend daily mass, daily rosary, and spending a great deal of time in private prayer in the chapel. Angela had been visiting the women in a local prison, teaching them the Catholic catechis
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