And so the Month of Mary so neatly morphs into June, the Month of her Son’s Sacred Heart.
When it comes to the Blessed Mother, we didn’t realize the Lourdes Grotto in the Vatican Gardens [above] so closely resembles the real thing in southern France.
During last month, a few details pertaining to the Virgin Mary’s miracles in Akita, Japan, to a deaf nun (Sister Agnes Sasagawa, who soon was cured) came to our attention.
Born in 1931, Sister Sasagawa at 19, on an operating table for what should have been a simple appendectomy, woke up and could not move.
But something went wrong.
Paralysis of the central nervous system.
She was told she would spend the next ten years in a hospital bed.
She would not walk out until she was nearly thirty years old.
In between were eleven surgeries, each one as or more painful than the next.
One of the nurses in that hospital was deeply Catholic and at some point brought water with her to the hospital from the spring at Lourdes.
Katsuko drank it, it is said, and started getting better.
The Church never called this a miracle. But what need to know is that a woman paralyzed for years, after multiple surgeries, drank that water and in the days afterward began improving, day by day.
She became strong enough to be discharged from the hospital.
She could walk.
And somewhere in those years, lying in that hospital bed, something shifted in her. By 1960, she made a decision that would shock everyone around her. She wanted to become Catholic. And a nun to boot. She would became famous after a series of events in 1073 when a Church-verified weeping statue of Mary began giving her messages.
Some messages from there:
https://www.scribd.com/document/490508514/The-Apparitions-at-Aokpe
https://www.ourladyofaokpe.net/messages