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This wooden statuette of Virgin Mary carved by a Buddhist a master in the 60s of the last century, located in a Japanese city Akita, in the chapel of the convent. For several years she’s not stood out among many other similar images. Today and her, and the chapel itself is known all over the world thanks to what is happening here miraculous appearances and healings.
Since 1973 the figurine of the Virgin Mary is bleeding and crying. By According to eyewitnesses, she healed the nun from deafness and brain tumors – a visitor to a convent. Explain this experts, as you may already guess, cannot. Created statuettes miracles, although not without some hesitation, were recognized leaders of the catholic world …
The Miracle of Sister Agnes
Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa came to this monastery in May 1973. in forty-two years old. Then she just moved from Buddhism to Catholicism. Sister Agnes had big health problems, and in addition, she underwent an unsuccessful removal operation appendix. For several years, the woman did not hear at all with her left ear, and deafness threatened the right …
When Agnes came to the monastery, she was already several months completely deaf that her medical records reflected. Female had official hearing impaired status; her condition confirmed by two experts from various medical institutions.
Sister Agnes lived in the monastery for several weeks before saw the first miracle created by the Virgin of Akita. June 12, 1973 the chapel seemed to be enveloped in a bright glow, and in the air in front of the altar something like a cloud of smoke or a cloud has arisen. Then agnes saw a lot of angel-like creatures standing around the altar.
She claims that there was also her guardian angel, face which expressed infinite kindness, and a figure shrouded in radiant snowy white. After praying with Agnes, the angel gave his woman instructions. The nun told the abbess about this vision. monastery, as well as a spiritual shepherd.
From June 28, Agnes began to have stigmata (ulcers and bruises on those parts of the body where the crucified Jesus Christ had wounds from nails and crown of thorns). So, on the nun’s left palm opened and began to bleed a wound in the form of a cross. Agnes sensed the pain on Thursday evening, she didn’t abate all day and finally became almost unbearable. Then he came to the nun again her guardian angel said: Virgin Mary had wounds much deeper, and the suffering is much stronger than yours. After that he proposed Agnes pray in the chapel with him.
After the prayer, Agnes raised her eyes to the image of the Virgin Mary – a figurine carved from solid wood of scarlet and having height a little less than a meter, and suddenly I felt that she came to life and speaks now. The figurine shone with bright light … At that moment Agnes’s inaudible ears discerned how unspeakably beautiful said in a voice: “Your deafness will be healed.”
The next morning, the nuns who came for prayer to the chapel, were amazed: on the right wrist of the figurine there was a wound from which oozing blood. And every Friday of July, this wound again and again starting to bleed, which was seen by many visitors.
Another nun of the same monastery says that blood flowed out of a tree, as if from a cut of human flesh. It could be see fragments of living tissue and skin particles … At that moment, the narrator there was no doubt that this was a real wound.
At the end of July, Stigmata disappeared from Sister Agnes. But on statuette wounds remained until the end of September, although they did not bleed more. It is noteworthy that by 1982. Sister Agnes completely hearing was restored, despite the fact that doctors considered her incurable disease…
Another Miracle: Theresa Chun Sung Ho’s Healing
In 1981 South Korean resident Teresa Chun Sung Ho was in coma, when in a vision the Virgin of Akita appeared to her. Woman suffered from brain tumors, and doctors did not give her any chance of healing. When Chun emerged from a coma, she went to Japan, a convent the city of Akita and began to earnestly pray in the chapel. Chun is back home already absolutely healthy that shocked witnessed the doctors.
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Besides the fact that the statuette of the Virgin Akita was bleeding, she cried repeatedly and it was filmed by local reporters news programs. In all, she was myrrh-streaming, crying and bleeding 101 times. Non-Catholics studied all of these liquids and concluded that they are human …
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