Pilgrims impede progress at site of ‘weeping’ statue of Mary
Cars and coaches clog Trevignano Romano near Rome on the third day of every month when the statue’s owner, Gisella Cardia, appears to enter a state of ecstasy and takes down dictation in a notebook, allegedly from Mary herself.
On Friday a crowd of 600, including pilgrims from Poland, looked on as Cardia revealed Mary had told her to “avoid being tempted by Satan” because a “serious war is coming”.
At the February 3 event, pilgrims reacted angrily when police started handing them parking tickets as Cardia was taking dictation from the Virgin Mary.
Cardia, 53 acquired her statue in 2016 in Medjugorje in Bosnia, which has become a pilgrimage hub since six children said they saw visions of Mary there in 1981. Cardia said Mary started to talk to her, predicting the Covid outbreak in 2019 and telling her to put the statue up in a park overlooking Lake Bracciano.
As prayers get under way, accompanied by a guitarist and a singer, pilgrims have reported the sun pulses in a supernatural way. The local Catholic bishop announced this week he would launch an inquiry into the phenomenon.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pilgr...-mb3kpxvpr
Cars and coaches clog Trevignano Romano near Rome on the third day of every month when the statue’s owner, Gisella Cardia, appears to enter a state of ecstasy and takes down dictation in a notebook, allegedly from Mary herself.
On Friday a crowd of 600, including pilgrims from Poland, looked on as Cardia revealed Mary had told her to “avoid being tempted by Satan” because a “serious war is coming”.
At the February 3 event, pilgrims reacted angrily when police started handing them parking tickets as Cardia was taking dictation from the Virgin Mary.
Cardia, 53 acquired her statue in 2016 in Medjugorje in Bosnia, which has become a pilgrimage hub since six children said they saw visions of Mary there in 1981. Cardia said Mary started to talk to her, predicting the Covid outbreak in 2019 and telling her to put the statue up in a park overlooking Lake Bracciano.
As prayers get under way, accompanied by a guitarist and a singer, pilgrims have reported the sun pulses in a supernatural way. The local Catholic bishop announced this week he would launch an inquiry into the phenomenon.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pilgr...-mb3kpxvpr
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"