Une Minute avec Marie
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On May 26, 1432, Giovanetta di Pietro Vacchi, daughter of Lombard peasants (Italy), a simple and pious woman married to a violent man, had a vision of the Virgin Mary:
“Suddenly a strikingly beautiful lady stood in front of me. She was of tall stature, with a graceful face, a venerable appearance, dressed in blue with a white veil,” she explained.
The apparition asked her to pray, and said that she had come to ask for peace between the peoples of the East and the West. Caravaggio remains a famous pilgrimage in Lombardy to this day.
The bishop of Cremona quickly agreed to build a shrine, visited in 1992 by Pope Saint John Paul II.