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On January 31, 2007 the Bishop, entering Marisa's bedroom, smelt
Our Lady's characteristic perfume. Looking around himself he saw on Marisa's
chest a lock of hair and more loose hair. This lock is made of plaited hair
of Jesus, child and adult, Our Lady and St. Joseph.
This was a great joy for the Bishop and Marisa, even more because the previous
relic, an Our Lady's hair, had been stolen by the devil.
This relic is unique in the History of the Church and by God's will it performed,
the following day, the first miracle. Marisa, after a day of acute pains, in
the afternoon was struck by a deforming arthrosis at her right hand, so that
her fingers had been benumbed and become contracted and the strong pain had
struck also her arm. The Bishop put the relic in Marisa's hands and in a few
seconds the pain ceased and the fingers got to normality.
On August 4, 2001 the bishop and the visionary, accompanied by some
members of the community, went to the marvellous valley extending between Catelluccio
di Norcia and Forca Canapine, in order to take a relaxing walk and breathe the
salubrious air of the surrounding mountains.
When they arrived to a quiet and solitary stretch of road, everybody got off
the car and began to walk. Marisa, who was going on crutches with difficulty,
suddenly let them drop and started running along the road with a free and easy
step.
Our Lady had come, she had taken her by the hand and let her walk. Mother and
daughter, keeping each other by the hand all the time, talked for a long time,
laughed and joked. For the bishop what was happening was not a novelty, but
it was for the people present who were happy and moved.
After about half an hour Our Lady invited Marisa to sit down again in the car,
she embraced her and went away.
When Marisa recovered from the ecstasy, she told the people present what she
had lived. The attention of the bishop was attracted by a black hair that, laid
down on the visionary's chest, contrasted with the white pullover that she was
wearing. None of the people present, observed with attention by the bishop,
had black hair. It was natural for the bishop to ask himself: "Whose is
this hair?" that also emitted a particular and intense scent.
It was not either possible to make as if to answer, because a gust of wind blew
the hair off, in the discorcertment of the people present.
The bishop looked the most sorrowful, because he had realized it was a particular
hair and he exclaimed: "Let's hope that somone lets us know to whom that
hair belonged".
While everybody was going to take a seat in the car, the bishop exclaimed: "Here
it is"; in fact on Marisa's chest the hair had appeared again. Don Claudio,
since he had nothing else at his disposal, wrapped up the hair with a paper
handkerchief and put it in his poket.
When they arrived at home the bishop and the visionary checked the hair with
great attention and realized that its color had changed in some parts.
Later Our Lady appeared and said: "I wanted to present with a hair of mine
my son, the bishop Claudio Gatti. At the beginning the hair was completely black,
then some parts cleared up assuming the colors of the hair of the little Jesus
and of my beloved spouse Joseph".
This gift is unique and exclusive, because the Mother of the Eucharist said
that "nobody has ever been presented with it".
The bishop put the hair in a reliquary made up on the spur of the moment: a
little box of carton. When he came back to Rome he spoke about it to the entire
community and he promised to show it on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
The hair was kept in a secure place that only the bishop knew and sometimes
he went to check the precious relic.
On December 7, Don Claudio decided to transfer the hair from the little box
of carton into a more appropriate container.
He went where was kept the little box that contained the precious relic, but
he could not find it. He was assailed with the question: "What has happened
to the hair?" and helped by Marisa and some young people he searched all
the possible places where, by mistake or inattention, he could have put provisonally
the little box of carton.
The more time passed the more any research showed to be useless; the hair and
its container seemed to have volatilized.
Finally, exhausted and high-strung, Don Claudio had to surrender and exclaimed
with suffering: "It's useless continuing the researches. But who has taken
the hair?".
In order to console the bishop Marisa said: "Never mind. Let's hope Our
Lady brings an other one". As soon as she finished to say this phrase,
Don Claudio smelt strongly Our Lady's scent, that was smelt soon afterwards
by Marisa.
The bishop and the visionary looked at each other in the eyes without breathing
a word.
Don Claudio thought: "Maybe has Our Lady put an other hair in the new reliquary?".
For fear of receiving a bitter disappointment, the bishop did not open it immediately,
but since the scent persisted he was compelled to open the box of carton that
protected the reliquary. Through the glass of the reliquary he saw what it contained
and exclaimed: "The hair".
The cry was so strong that the people who were in the house rushed and the bishop
showed them the hair with joy and emotion.
On December 8, Our Lady spoke about the hair.
"I want to explain you something about my hair. The bishop will tell you
all that he and little Marisa lived due to my hair first outside and then in
Rome. This is my only relic all over the Earth.
Nobody has a relic of mine, nobody has a hair of mine, a hair fused with the
one of Joseph and of the Child Jesus.
Someone took property of the other hair, maybe the devil, but I can't say anything
else. Your bishop will explain you everything".
Don Claudio told the story of the hair in detail and at the end he said: "It
is the only relic not only of a person who lived on the Earth, but also of the
only body, besides Jesus' body, which is present now in the Paradise".
All the faithful kissed the reliquary, held by Marisa, that contained Our Lady's
hair and they smelt the sweet and pleasant scent emitted by it.
Now the precious relic is kept jealously by our bishop. In the future it will
be exposed in the basilica that will rise in Rome to welcome the numerous pilgrims,
coming from all over the world to the Eternal City, in order to adore the Eucharist
that bled, to venerate Our Lady's hair and visit the thaumaturgical place sanctified
by the presence of the Most Holy Trinity, Jesus, the Mother of the Eucharist,
the angels and the saints.
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