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Our Lady who cried

You cannot visit Siracusa, or Syracuse as it is known in Italy, without visiting the Sanctuary of Our Lady Who Wept. Honestly, we were more than a little skeptical, until we discovered all the invaluable and indisputable scientific evidence that assured us that it was legit. Like Bishop Ettore Baranzini, we have always had reservations when it comes to alleged apparitions and supposed miracles. Only when Mother Church verifies do we write and make programs.

Our story begins in Syracuse on August 29, 1953, five months before Antonina and Angelo Jannuso were married. Since they were a struggling young couple, with Angelo a poor worker earning the minimum wage, they accepted his brother’s kind invitation and moved into his small house on Via degli Orti di E. Giorgio. On the day of their marriage they received a plaster plaque of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as a wedding present. Although they were what we would call lukewarm Catholics, barely fulfilling their ecclesiastical duties by going to church on Sundays, they reverently affixed the plasterboard to the wall above his bed.

Shortly after getting married, they discovered that they would know the blessing of giving birth to a boy. The couple were delighted, but typical of the poor working class of Sicily, things were not going to be easy. They discovered that Antonina had toxemia. Not only did this cause excruciating seizures, the seizures sometimes resulted in bouts of blindness. On the day of the miracle, August 29, Antonina was blinded due to a seizure resulting from her convulsions. She was totally blind from three in the morning until half past eight at night, when she fully recovered her sight.

He later wrote that he turned to the image of the Immaculate Heart of Mary over his bed, to thank Our Lady for giving him his sight back, when to his utter amazement he saw but the plaque of Our Lady was crying. He called his sister-in-law and her aunt who, telling them what he had seen, thought he was delusional due to his illness. She said that she then insisted that they look closely at the image of Our Lady. Reluctantly they did as she asked.

As they approached the image, they also saw tears flowing from Our Lady’s eyes, and they testified to the fact that they also saw some tears running down Her face to the head of her bed. Needless to say, upon witnessing the image crying, they had mixed feelings: fear mixed with awe and wonder. They immediately set out to warn the neighbors. They removed the plaque from the wall and took it outside so the neighbors could see what they had seen. The neighbors could not help but confirm what they too had seen. The image of the Virgin shed tears!

Visitors came from far and near to witness the miraculous phenomena for themselves. People are always looking for the supernatural! Not only did the curious but also a very respected man in the neighborhood, a certain Mario Messina; and after he too noticed tears welling up from the eyes of the image, he removed the wall plate to see if possibly the tears were not coming out through the plaster plate from a hidden reservoir. Upon examination, he could do no more than state that he could not see any evidence to question the miraculous formation of tears on the plate. They blotted the plate and tears quickly formed on the dry surface.

As the crowd grew, flocking to the small house to see the image, the authorities, with the permission of the Jannusos, removed the plaque from the wall and hung it on the outside wall of the house to satisfy the curiosity of everyone who had visited her. heard of the miraculous event. Seeing that the numbers were increasing, instead of decreasing, and that it was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain a semblance of order, the local carabinieri decided to take the plaque to the local police station. The image continued to cry, even as it was carefully taken to the local police station. But once inside the station, less than forty minutes had passed before the image stopped crying. Consequently, he was restored to his rightful home: the home where the Jannusos lived.

Now the people had not moved from outside the little house. Thus, at 2 am on Sunday, August 30, the plaque, which had cried again, was placed on a pillow for all to see and venerate. On Monday, the plaque was nailed to the wall. With which, people began to collect tears in handkerchiefs, cotton balls and all kinds of scraps of cloth. Our Lady, as the kind and accommodating Mother that she is, was able to assure her children that a miracle had indeed taken place, for them! Since it was not well attached to the wall, they decided to take the plaque to the house across the street and place it on an altar specially designed for this purpose. The crowd kept coming. As they approached the image of Our Lady, they knelt down and began to pray the Rosary. This done, the Rosary was finished; the plaque was gently carried back to Jannuso’s home.

investigations begin

Upon learning of this miracle, three priests visited the Jannuso family and verified, with their own eyes, what others had seen: indeed, the image on the plaque was crying! One of the priests prudently notified the Chancery. So the Foreign Ministry convened an investigative committee made up of highly respected priests, four scientists and three reliable witnesses. Satisfied that the mix was complete and balanced, the Chancery instructed them to go to Jannuso’s house and carefully examine the situation.

The delegation arrived at the Jannuso home on the morning of Tuesday, September 1. Our Lady once again pleased her children and allowed the image to cry. As the image of Our Lady wept, the delegation carefully inspected the plaque. Not only were they able to witness the image cry, but they were given the opportunity to examine the plaque, as tears cascaded down the image’s face, filling the cup that Our Lady’s image had gently formed with Her hand. , with which She held Her heart to Her children. They found that although the front of the plate was wet from tears, the back of the plate was dry. They carefully took samples of the tears to take to the lab for scientific examination.

The team of scientists carefully collected approximately twenty drops of liquid into a thin, sterile tube and poured the liquid into an equally sterile vial. The vial was then taken to a laboratory to be thoroughly examined by chemists and doctors. They took this tear sample and compared it to tears from an adult and a child. They found that the tears from the image of Our Lady contained the same liquid composition that was found in the human tears analyzed. His conclusion: The liquid brought from the plate in Jannuso’s house was like that of the tears of a human being.

The tests concluded on September 9, 1953, and the findings were verified by the following doctors: Michele Cassola, Francesco Cotzie, Leopoldo La Rosa, and Mario Marietta.

This was what the Church needed! As we know, the Church will send the most scrupulous Devil’s Advocates to dispute, if necessary, any questionable features of a supposed miracle. Using men of science as well as the Hierarchy, when the findings proved beyond any doubt the truth of the miraculous event, then Mother Church was free to act; and the act she did!

The Archbishop of Syracuse visited Jannuso’s house and inspected the plaque and without saying anything, returned the next day to pray the Rosary, together with the strong who had gathered. His approval was joined by many other bishops who had visited Jannuso’s house and witnessed the flow of tears. Then Cardinal Ernesto Ruffini made the following statement in a radio broadcast on December 13:

“After a careful sifting of the numerous reports, after having verified the positive results of the diligent chemical analysis under which the accumulated tears were examined, we have unanimously issued the sentence that the reality of the facts cannot be doubted” .

That’s not enough? On October 17, 1954, His Holiness Pope Pius XII further affirmed the miraculous tears with the following statement on national radio:

“…we recognize the unanimous declaration of the Episcopal Conference held in Sicily on the reality of that event. Will men understand the mysterious language of those tears?”

Reference: “The Many Faces of Mary – Book II”

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