“The Virgin Mary held the bloody Crown of Thorns”

On Good Friday, March 25, 1921, Sister Josefa Menendez (1) received a visit from Jesus and Mary, which she recounts:

“After finishing sweeping, I went upstairs to visit Our Lady in the Novitiate’s chapel. I had hardly entered when Our Lord came. His hands were tied, his head crowned with thorns, his face stained with blood and blows. He only fixed his eyes on me with great sadness. Then he disappeared.

Around three o'clock in the afternoon, I saw Him again - He showed me the Wound on His Side and said, “- Look what Love has done!” “His Wound opened and He continued: “- It is for men that It was opened... it is for you! ... Come... come closer... and enter!” 

The Mother of Sorrows confirms the graces of that day with one of those words that so clearly reveal her Heart. At around five o'clock in the evening, Josefa was in the Novitiate’s chapel again: 

“There, without saying a word, seated at the feet of the Blessed Virgin, I replayed in my mind everything I had seen and understood today. Suddenly, she came: her tunic was a very dark purple, as was her long veil. In her hands, she held the bloody Crown of Thorns, and showed it to me, saying: 

“On Calvary, Jesus gave me all men for sons. Come, for you are my daughter! Don't you already know how much I am your Mother?” 

I asked her permission to kiss the Crown and, giving it to me at the same time as She put her hand on my shoulder, She said: ‘Oh! What a memory of Himself He left me by giving me souls!..."

Sister Josefa Menendez, The Way of Divine Love

(1) Sister Josefa Menendez was a humble Spanish nun and mystic who spent almost 4 years in France, from February 5, 1920, to her death on December 29, 1923. She recorded the amazing journey in the heart of Jesus in a diary published after her death under the title The Way of Divine Love.