10^ APPARITION
Date: Sunday 28th May
Time: 18:00
Attendance: About 300.000 people
Vision: the Blessed Virgin Mary with two Saints on either side
Adelaide spent the week fruitfully in a spiritual retreat in Bergamo, at the Orsoline Sisters', in order to prepare herself to First Communion. Several pilgrims arrived at Ghiaie di Bonate, urged by their great faith. The rumour of miraculous healings had spread. It was Whit Sunday. Adelaide received her First Communion and was soon taken back to Bergamo into the Sisters' convent. She would go back to the place of the apparitions in the late afternoon.

From Adelaide's diary:
"On this day I received my First Communion. Like all the other evenings I was taken to the place of the apparitions and the bright spot appeared again, revealing Our Lady with the angels and two Saints at her side. The Lady told me: “Pray for the stubborn sinners who make my Heart suffer because they do not think of death. Pray also for the Holy Father who is living difficult moments. He is ill treated by many and many attempt his life. I will protect him and he will not leave the Vatican. Peace is coming soon, but I am anxious for that world peace in which everybody loves one another like brothers. Only this way the Pope will suffer less”.
Our Lady held two black doves in her hands. They stand for the harmony married couples must have in order to create blessed families in the presence of Our Lady. She teaches also that there cannot exist a blessed family without living trustfully in Our Lady's motherly hands.

Our Lady did not reveal the name of those two Saints she had at her sides. Only by internal inspiration I had a clear insight about their names: Saint Matthew and Saint Judas. The name Judas stirs up a sad memory in my heart because I betrayed, though unintentionally, the Blessed Virgin. In this apparition I can see Our Lady's exquisite charitable spirit. By showing Saint Judas She wanted to warn me about the trials I would suffer for asserting her motherly and secure word that unfortunately I could not bear. I feel that sense of guilt lying heavily in my conscience, but even if I imitated Judas the traitor, nevertheless I want to become holy and follow the example of Saint Judas by being an apostle and martyr for Jesus' and Our Lady's sake. Saint Matthew inspires a sense of confidence in my salvation because he was a sinner too but followed Jesus and became an apostle of his name.

The two Saints were dressed in violet and wore a brown cloak. Our Lady was dressed in red and wore her green mantle; She also wore a crown-shaped diadem studded with small bright variously coloured pearls. Before leaving she turned her eyes to the two Saints, then slowly disappeared".

The solar phenomenon repeated itself; it will be seen not only at Ghiaie but also in very distant places.
From the parish journal of Tavernola, dated June 1944, one can read: "At 18 hours sharp, people noticed a fading of the solar light together with a flash, similar to a sudden lightning; the phenomenon was first distinctively observed by some bowlers. The sun looked green, then bright red, then gold yellow… furthermore, it whirled dizzily. On seeing that spectacle, people poured into the streets …"

As it was known later, through the revelations of the SS general Karl Wolf, stationed in Italy, the Pope had run a serious risk of being transported to Germany and Rome had risked becoming another Stalingrad.

 

 

 
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