Blessed Carlo Acutis conceived and created a beautiful traveling exhibition on Eucharistic Miracles. This exhibition continues to travel throughout Italy and the world; all the Eucharistic miracles featured in the exhibition have been collected in the book Eucharistic Miracles of the World, from which this text is taken.
In the church of the monastery of Rosano (FI), the statue of the Sacred Heart, which bled and wept on several occasions, is venerated.
The life-size statue was donated in 1948 by a devout person in fulfillment of a vow made during the Second World War.
Christ’s face has an intense expression of manly gentleness that invites prayer and contemplation.
The heart stands out at the center of the chest, surrounded by a crown of thorns.
From the letter of Bishop Luciano Giovannetti,
April 4, 1948
«On the evening of April 4, 1948, Easter Sunday in Albis, during the singing of Vespers, it was observed for the first time that drops resembling tears were falling from the statue’s eyes. In June of the same year, another “impressive and unexpected” prodigy occurred: the effusion of blood. These events occurred repeatedly between 1948 and 1950 and are corroborated by numerous eyewitnesses, by the nuns themselves, and particularly by the Reverend Mother Abbess M. Ildegarde Cabitza of v.m.
The monastery archives preserve many sworn testimonies, including those of priests, preachers, and occasional visitors, together with medical analyses of the blood, and purificators and lavabo cloths soaked in blood. Among these, the testimony of Monsignor Angelo Scapecchi, who later became auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Arezzo, remains especially valuable. The archives reveal that Father Luigi Romoli, O.P., the visitor sent by the Holy Office, conducted an investigation and personally questioned all the nuns, imposing absolute silence on the community. Later, on November 14, 1950, the same Holy Office ordered the statue’s removal to keep it in a secret location.
It returned to Rosano in 1952. The Rosano community experienced these events with inner joy and great emotion, but with the utmost discretion, so much so that - as the chronicle records - it was not distracted from its daily occupations; on the contrary, monastic life continued with greater intensity according to the Benedictine motto Ora et labora. The phenomenon of weeping and the outpouring of blood was considered inexplicable from a natural and human point of view.
My revered predecessor, Monsignor Giovanni Giorgis, saw in the events at Rosano a call from the Lord “to fidelity, reparation, and prayer”. […] Dearest brothers and sisters, let us recall with emotion what happened fifty years ago in our diocese; let us see it as a sign of the Lord’s benevolence and love, and as an invitation to serious and profound reflection.
Let us joyfully renew our ardent devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and, welcoming this message, let us ask for the gift of an ever deeper conversion to his love, the grace of growing apostolic fervor, and also the gift of numerous and holy priestly and religious vocations, so that Christ may become the heart of the world. Gazing upon the heart of Jesus, we will joyfully draw from the springs of salvation!».
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