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TESTIMONIES,
CONVERSIONS AND HEALINGS
Many were the persons who saw with their own eyes,
touched with their own hands, gathered and tasted
the salt of the tears.
TESTIMONIES
The testimony of Mrs. Antonina Iannuso (the woman
who received the miracle)
“...to my great surprise I noticed that the image of
the Madonna shed tears from the eyes. I called my
sister-in-law Grazia and my aunt Antonia Sgarlata,
who were with me to assist me, indicating to them
the tears. They, at first believed that it had to do
with the hallucinations caused by the illness, but,
after insisting that they go close to the image,
they also ascertained that from the eyes of the
Madonna tears were truly shed, and some drops,
running down the cheek, fell on the headboard of the
bed.”
The witness of Sebastiano Di Pietro, laborer:
“...I had the fortune to see with my own eyes a tear
that welled up in the corner of the right eye and in
that moment fell upon the cheek and rolled to the
jaw in the direction of the chin...I was moved;
tears escaped from me and I began to weep; I was
almost ashamed that others would see me cry… I
turned around and I saw that everyone was crying...” |
Anna Vassallo |
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Enza Moncada |
CONVERSIONS
The spiritual healings and conversions were
numerous. One of the most striking
conversions is that of Dr. Michele Cassola,
head of the medical commission that analysed
the tears. An upright and honest man from a
professional point of view, he did not deny
the evidence of the lachrymation.
Nonetheless he remained a non believer.
Twenty years later, during the last week of
his life, in the presence of the reliquary
in which were sealed the tears that he
himself scientifically analysed, he opened
himself to the faith and received the
Eucharist. |
Enza Moncada |
The witness of Mons Migliorisi who assisted Dr.
Cassola in the last days of his life:
“...When, in the last days of the Holy Week, the
daughter of Dr. Cassola presented me to him, I did
not speak to him about God, but he, with a profound
gaze said to me ‘I have understood.’ Holy Saturday
was a great day. I asked the Rector of the Shrine
for the Reliquary which I then brought to the
Cassola home. The Doctor studied it a long time,
kissed it, kissed the Crucifix with warmth, received
the Eucharist with love...”
HEALINGS
The physical healings that the medical commission
considered extraordinary numbered about 300 by
mid-November of 1953. In particular:
Enza Moncada (paralysis)
Giovanni Tarascio (paralysis)
Vassallo, (tumour)
From the testimony of her husband, Dr. Salvatore
Vassallo:
“...I communicate to you that my wife, Marianna
Gaudioso, 43 years of age, has received from Our
Lady of Tears the miracle of a healing held
impossible from skilful clinics of Italy ... They
diagnosed an epithelioma of the rectum... After five
trips to Syracuse, to Our Lady of Tears, and after
having applied a little of the blessed cotton she
noticed a progressive improvement; today she does
not suffer from it at all. The Prof. Selvaggi who
visited her did not find any more signs of the
tumour. He, himself, remained speechless and
confused, he did not know how to explain the
phenomenon scientifically.” (Syracuse, 4 October
1953)
If you have news of the testimonies at the time of
the lachrymation or of particular graces granted
through the intercession of Our Lady of Tears, send
us your written testimony....... |
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