8^ APPARITION
Date: Saturday 20th May
Time: 18:00
Attendance: about 30.000 people
Vision: The Holy Family
Adelaide, escorted by the parish priest don Cesare Vitali and by her cousin Maria, went to Bergamo to the Bishop's in order to reveal him the secret disclosed by the Virgin Mary. Her cousin spoke to the Bishop about the announcement given by Adelaide of a miracle that would happen at the end of the first cycle of apparitions. That evening, at the Ghiaie, there was a huge crow waiting for Adelaide.

From Adelaide's diary:
"Like all the other evenings I got on to the granite slab and waited for Our dear Lady to show herself. The Holy Family appeared again and Our Lady told me: “Tomorrow will be the last time I speak to you, then for seven days I will let you reflect on what I have told you. Try and get my words straight, as they will be very useful for you when you grow up if you want to become all mine. After these seven days I will come back four times more”. Her voice sounded so harmonious and sweet that, so far as I tried to reproduce it, I was never able to.

Like at Fatima, celestial phenomena took place at Ghiaie too, such as had never been seen before.
Doctor Eliana Maggi testified with a deposition under oath on the 16th January 1946 before the Episcopal Committee:" That Saturday was a rainy day. At the outset of the apparition a sunray shone on the child's head. I raised my eyes to the sky and saw a cross-shaped rift in the sky and a shower of golden and silvery spots, for a minute or two, and everybody hailed it as a miracle". Don Luigi Cortesi wrote in connection with the solar phenomena of that Saturday evening:"Somebody noticed a strange beam of light, shining upon the child and reverberating over the surrounding faces. Others noticed the sun had a cross shape; others saw the solar disc whirl dizzily forming a ring not larger than half metre. In the lower layers of the atmosphere some people saw a rain of gold stars, small yellow clouds in the shape of hoops, so thick and near that somebody tried to catch them in full flight. On the onlookers' hands and faces the most various colours shaded off, with the yellow colour prevailing over the others; phosphorescent hands were seen, light globes in the shape of Hosts… "
 

Interpretazione dell'Apparizione
della Sacra Famiglia
 

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