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8^ APPARITION
Date: Saturday 20th May
Time: 18:00
Attendance: about 30.000 people
Vision: The Holy Family |
| Adelaide, escorted
by the parish priest don Cesare Vitali and by her cousin Maria,
went to Bergamo to the Bishop's in order to reveal him the secret
disclosed by the Virgin Mary. Her cousin spoke to the Bishop
about the announcement given by Adelaide of a miracle that would
happen at the end of the first cycle of apparitions. That evening,
at the Ghiaie, there was a huge crow waiting for Adelaide. |
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From Adelaide's diary:
"Like all the other evenings I got on to the granite
slab and waited for Our dear Lady to show herself. The Holy
Family appeared again and Our Lady told me: “Tomorrow
will be the last time I speak to you, then for seven days
I will let you reflect on what I have told you. Try and get
my words straight, as they will be very useful for you when
you grow up if you want to become all mine. After these seven
days I will come back four times more”.
Her voice sounded so harmonious and sweet that, so far as
I tried to reproduce it, I was never able to.
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Like at
Fatima, celestial phenomena took place at Ghiaie too, such as
had never been seen before.
Doctor Eliana Maggi testified
with a deposition under oath on the 16th January 1946 before
the Episcopal Committee:" That Saturday was a rainy day.
At the outset of the apparition a sunray shone on the child's
head. I raised my eyes to the sky and saw a cross-shaped rift
in the sky and a shower of golden and silvery spots, for a minute
or two, and everybody hailed it as a miracle". Don Luigi
Cortesi wrote in connection with the solar phenomena of that
Saturday evening:"Somebody noticed a strange beam of light,
shining upon the child and reverberating over the surrounding
faces. Others noticed the sun had a cross shape; others saw
the solar disc whirl dizzily forming a ring not larger than
half metre. In the lower layers of the atmosphere some people
saw a rain of gold stars, small yellow clouds in the shape of
hoops, so thick and near that somebody tried to catch them in
full flight. On the onlookers' hands and faces the most various
colours shaded off, with the yellow colour prevailing over the
others; phosphorescent hands were seen, light globes in the
shape of Hosts… " |
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Interpretazione dell'Apparizione
della Sacra Famiglia |
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La pagina del Diario di Adelaide:
20 Maggio |
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