2^ APPARITION
Date: Sunday 14th May 1944
Time: 18:00
Attendance: Adelaide, some young girls and one boy
Vision: The Holy Family

From Adelaide's diary:
"I was at the parish recreation centre with my playmates, but towards six hours I felt a great wish to run to the place where Our Lady had invited me to. I was off like a shot with some of my mates; once on the place I instinctively looked up and saw two white doves, then further up I saw the bright spot approach and turn into the clear and majestic form of the Holy Family.

At first they smiled at me, then Our Lady repeated what she had told me yesterday: “You must be good, obedient and sincere, and you must pray well and be respectful of your neighbour. Between your fourteenth and fifteenth year, you will become a Sacramentina nun. You will suffer a lot, but do not weep, as you will come with me to Paradise!”. Then she went away slowly and disappeared like the evening before.

I felt a tremendous joy in my heart on account of the plain words of Our Lady and the impression of her sweet presence was deeply engraved in my mind. I went back to the recreation centre with my mates; halfway down the road I met a good boy who questioned me. When I confirmed I had seen Our Lady, he anxiously asked me:" Go back and see if she appears again, then try and ask her if I may become a priest and devote my life to Her." I went back hurriedly, and looked up hoping Our Lady would come back. And really after few minutes Her beautiful presence manifested itself again. I expressed Candido' wish again (the boy was present this time). She answered in a sweet and motherly voice: : “Yes, he will become a Missionary Father according to my Sacred Heart, when the war is over”. After saying so, she slowly disappeared.

When the vision was over, I felt my apron pulled by the boy who apprehensively asked me what Our Lady had said. I reported Our Lady's words to him and he ran home happily to tell his mother about this. I went back home with my friends and I felt a big joy in my heart. Our Lady, before going away, had told me to go back again for seven evenings".

Adelaide soon experienced the truth of the second prophecy. That evening, over the family supper, she was harshly rebuked. Father A. Tentori writes that in this apparition Our Lady confirmed Candido's vocation "to whom She smiled" but then Adelaide let out a brief cry ad hid her face in her hands, without explaining why. Probably she had learnt about the suffering that that vocation would cost her friend. Meanwhile, the news of the apparitions had crossed the frontier of Ghiaie di Bonate.

 

Interpretazione dell'Apparizione
della Sacra Famiglia
 


Padre Candido Maffeis
 
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