Vice President Leni Robredo on Saturday, May 22, talked about a personal loss after finding out the “devastating news” that her “number 1 prayer warrior,” Sister Mary Agnes Xavier of the Holy Spirit, OCD, died due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Calling the nun her textmate, Robredo recalled she used to visit her at the Carmelite Monastery, where they will “spend hours talking” whenever her work brings her to Zamboanga.

“Our birthdays are one day apart and we always tell each other that might be the reason why we’re kindred spirits,” Robredo said in a Facebook post.

The vice president posted photos of them together, as well as two screenshots of the last conversation she had with Sister Agnes.

On the screenshot dated April 23 this year, Robredo’s birthday, Sister Agnes shared that a Thanksgiving Mass will be held for the vice president that morning.

It was, she added, “for the many wondrous blessings you have received.”

“I pray that He will grant your birthday wish. Much love and never ending prayers,” Sister Agnes said, thanking Robredo for the birthday greeting she received a day before.

Robredo said that one of the last messages she received from Sister Agnes was an update “of their situation at the Monastery after one of their sisters, Sister Ann, died.”

The lady official shared that another nun, Sister Bernie, soon followed, while Sister Agnes was the third one to succumb to COVID-19.

“Even after she was brought to the hospital and could no longer text, I have been receiving updates very regularly from Doc Anton, who was telling me that Sister Agnes gave specific instructions to update me, along with 2 others, of her situation. She must have known I was worried,” she said.

“Our loss is indeed heaven’s gain. We are grieving but we know that Sister Agnes has finally gone home to where she really belongs,” Robredo added.