{"id":16955,"date":"2015-11-23T18:53:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T23:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?page_id=16955"},"modified":"2023-04-30T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:29:12","slug":"luisa-piccarreta-saved-my-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?page_id=16955","title":{"rendered":"“Luisa Piccarreta saved my life”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Testimony of Maria Margarita Chaves<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"L_Miracle<\/a><\/p>\n

Below is\u00a0a translation of the testimony given at the 4th International Conference
\n<\/strong>on the<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta in April, 2015.
\nThe translation is from the Luisa Piccarrita Official Newsletter,<\/em> November 26, 2015<\/strong>
\nThis is the link<\/a> to the news,<\/strong>
\nTo view information from local papers in Corato and Bari about this miracle attributed to Luisa.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Further<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>details will be posted as available.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLuisa Piccarreta saved my life\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Testimony of Maria Margarita Chavez:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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The miracle attributed to Luisa<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here below the translation of the articles of\u00a0CoratoLive.it<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(electronic journal of Corato) by Marianna Lotito and in\u00a0La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno\u00a0<\/em>(one of the most important newspapers in Southern Italy) by Giuseppe Cantatore on the miraculous healing of Mrs. Margarita Maria Chavez, \u00a0attributed by herself\u00a0 to\u00a0 the intercession of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Testimony of Maria Margarita Chavez:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

An element that could be important in the process of beatification of the Servant of God, known more in the world that in her hometown.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Florida the first miracle attributed to Luisa Piccarreta.
\nThe canonical process started.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The testimony of Margarita: \u201cLuisa Piccarreta saved my life\u201d<\/p>\n

Words of hope from Florida. Margarita experienced the intercession of Luisa for her recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"According to American doctors, it is a miracle, the first that occurred through the intercession of Luisa Piccarreta.<\/span><\/p>\n

Acute pneumonia combined with other complications had put the life of Maria Margarita Chavez in serious danger: according to the team that was treating her, she had less than 48 hours left to live. Then the inexplicable cure: \u201cthe Tuesday after Easter in 2007, they brought me a relic of Luisa and my lungs started to heal<\/em>,\u201d she herself recounted at the Conference on the \u201cDivine Will\u201d which was held in April in Corato. An element that could be important in the process of beatification of the Servant of God, known more in the world that in her hometown.<\/span><\/p>\n

For this reason, Bishop Pichierri asked the association named after Luisa to begin the \u201ccanonical process\u201d to \u201cgather the first testimonies\u201d before some of the main characters pass away. The main reference is the mother of Maria Margarita, who is now elderly.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo respond to this invitation<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 confirms Sabino Lastella, president of the association Luisa Piccarreta \u2013\u00a0we worked to institute a due process in the diocese of residence of Chavez, and that is in Miami, Florida.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In late May, the bishop of Miami, Mgr. Thomas Wenski, gave his approval, and\u00a0\u201cat this time we are contacting those who are part of the ecclesiastical tribunal,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0added Lastella. The Interrogatories will be held: between December and January twelve witnesses should be heard.\u00a0\u201cSoon we will have a final schedule<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Lastella continued \u2013\u00a0and at the conclusion of the work it is expected to take two days to meet and discuss in Miami, as the year of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Luisa is still going on.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Once all the documents, with all the seals of the Archbishop of Miami, have been prepared, they will be sent to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican through the postulation.<\/span><\/p>\n

To understand what this entails in the cause of beatification. we turned to Don Sergio Pellegrini, assistant ecclesiastic\u00a0 of the Little Children of the Divine Will.\u00a0\u201cOnce the verification of the writings of Luisa (still in progress) has been completed, the Cause will begin, and it will be possible to develop the \u201cPositio\u201d, an annotated biography needed so that the venerability of Luisa is recognized.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Only then what science now calls a miracle\u00a0\u201ccarry out its immediate effect in regard to the beatification\u201d\u00a0<\/em>confirms Don Sergio.<\/span><\/p>\n

To talk about a miracle recognized by the Church, the approval of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints is required.\u00a0\u201cThe testimonies will be evaluated\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 explained Don Sergio \u2013\u00a0and any further investigations that the congregation will want to make.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The story of Margherita<\/span><\/strong>. Born in Cuba on May 18, 1959, she lives in Miami with her mother Dolores and her son Christopher. April 4, 2007 \u2013 during Holy Week, as she herself wished to point out \u2013 she was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Miami and in the care of doctor Mario Almeida who in 2006 had treated her bronchopneumonia found on her return from a trip to Italy.\u00a0\u201cI went to Italy to visit the places where Luisa lived and to meet Sister Assunta\u201d\u00a0<\/em>said Margherita during the Conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

On April 6, the medical case of the woman continued to get worse, the doctors decided to intubate her and do a lung biopsy . Connected to an artificial respirator, Margarita went into a coma after receiving the sacraments of confession and anointing of the sick.<\/span><\/p>\n

On April 10, the Tuesday of the First Week of Easter, Father Cioffi put a relic of Luisa on the chest of Margherita, while around her they were reading the prayers and the writings of Luisa. The next day the first unexplained improvements were seen on x-ray: in a few days Margherita began to breathe on her own and could serenely face also the third kidney transplant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Margarita remembers about her state of unconsciousness: \u201cThe Lord showed me the intrinsic evil of humanity. I was in a place of the elderly and the dying without being able to move, the workers took advantage of us, they gave sleeping pills to have no trouble. I still recall the images of a place where they were preparing the bodies of the dead people. As I was lying on a table, the Lord Jesus let me hear the illicit and malicious conversations of those who were around me. They put me in a coffin, leaving out an arm. The coffin was too small, my body would not fit. The pain I felt was very intense.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Then came a man, dressed in a white coat, and I began to ask Jesus to have mercy on me. The more I begged pity from the Lord, the more the man squeezed my hand. I remained like that for a long time: he would be hammering my arm, and kept trying to close the coffin with my arm hanging outside. This lasted a long time. The man kept telling me that if I stopped asking Jesus for mercy, he would leave me alone and would not torture me anymore, but I did not stop asking Jesus for mercy. Then, I found myself in front of our Lord Jesus Christ who told me, “Daughter, your sins are forgiven.” Immediately, I saw coming out of me, and I felt coming out of me, like a smoke, a breath, a black shadow. Then, my body felt very light. I felt clean.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno Wednesday, November 18, 2015<\/p>\n

FROM MIAMI, UNITED STATES, THE TESTIMONY THAT WILL BE ASSESSED BY THE COURT OF LOCAL DIOCESE<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s me, miraculously healed by Luisa\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A 49 year old Cuban woman reveals the first miracle that could be attributed to Piccarreta.<\/span><\/p>\n

CORATO. It was the spring of 2007 when the lungs of Maria Margarita Chavez, a 49 – year – old woman from Cuba, were going to succumb definitively under the blows of a severe pneumonia. The diagnosis of doctors was merciless: they gave her only a few days to live.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, there was the poor woman’s sudden recovery that cannot be explained even today by those who\u00a0were treating he<\/span>r. So sudden, in fact, that Maria herself has attributed it to a miracle, through God’s servant Luisa Piccarreta, to whom she was and is very devoted.<\/p>\n

“I was admitted to Hospital in Miami, United States, during Holy Week,”<\/em>\u00a0told the woman last April, when she came to Corato to participate, together with thousands of faithful, in the fourth international conference on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Luisa ‘the Saint.’<\/span><\/p>\n

“My clinical condition – she explained –\u00a0continued to aggravate more and more, to the point that my lungs were completely obstructed.<\/em>\u00a0I\u00a0could hardly breathe, I was induced into a coma and was connected to a respirator.\u00a0<\/em>– the Central American woman also remembered –\u00a0The doctors, who had lost all hope, said to my mother to begin preparations for the funeral. During my unconscious state, I had several spiritual experiences. It was then, on Tuesday of the First Week of Easter, that they brought a relic of Luisa and imposed it on my chest. The next morning, my lungs, my lungs started to heal and in a short time, even after a kidney transplant, I have completely recovered.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Today this moving testimony could become a crucial step in the process of beatification of the “Servant of God”. \u00a0While the archdiocese is still busy producing the “typical and critical” edition of the many writings of Luisa, Bishop Giovan Battista Pichierri asked the association named after Piccarreta to start the canonical procedure to gather testimonies about this happening.\u00a0“We started the procedure to institute a due process in the Diocese of Miami, Florida, where Maria Margarita Chavez lives”<\/em>\u00a0says Sabino Lastella, president of the association. Last May, the Bishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, granted his approval and in recent weeks the ecclesiastical authorities have been setting the Court that between December and January will hear 12 witnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n

“At the conclusion of the work<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Mr. Lastella adds \u2013\u00a0we will schedule some days of meeting in Miami, \u00a0as the year of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Luisa is still going on. Once all the proceedings have been filled, the whole dossier, with the seals of the Archbishop of Miami, will be sent to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican. It will be this entity to establish whether the healing of Maria Margarita Chavez was a miracle or no.<\/em><\/span>“<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe collected testimonies will be evaluated and, if necessary, any further investigations that the congregation will want to make.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 explained Don Sergio Pellegrini, assistant ecclesiastic\u00a0 of the “Little Children of the Divine Will\u201d – \u00a0First the verification of the writings is to be completed, then the Cause will begin and it will be possible to develop the \u201d Positio\u201d, an annotated biography needed so that the venerability of Luisa is recognized. Only then –\u00a0<\/em>concludes Don Sergio –\u00a0what science now calls a miracle\u00a0 can carry out its immediate effect in regard to the beatification.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

CoratoLive- Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno<\/div>\n
Associazione Luisa Piccarreta – Piccoli Figli della Divina Volont\u00e0<\/b>
\nVia Luisa Piccarreta, 25\/27 CORATO BA70033<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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WHAT IS NEEDED:<\/b><\/p>\n

Storm Luisa with your prayers<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"L_LuisaCirclebk\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If we wish the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta<\/b>
\nto continue, and even hasten,\u00a0<\/b>
\nher ascent to the glory of the altar,\u00a0<\/b>
\nlet us give Luisa a chance to perform first class miracles.<\/b>
\nLuisa\u2019s holiness and the favors already granted should impregnate our supplications\u00a0<\/b>
\nwith unquenchable confidence.<\/b>
\nIt is certainly permissible to pray to Luisa in our daily needs,\u00a0<\/b>
\nbut let us not be afraid to implore real miracles from her.<\/b>
\nLet us invoke Luisa or have her invoked in cases of fatal maladies,\u00a0<\/b>
\nwherein science has to declare itself powerless.<\/b>
\nThat is when Luisa Piccarreta\u00a0<\/b>
\nwill be able to display the prodigious power of her intercession.<\/b><\/p>\n

MAKE KNOWN THE FAVORS RECEIVED<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

For the glory of God and of Luisa Piccarreta, kindly write out the favors obtained,<\/b>
\nsign them, with two witnesses, if possible, and send to:<\/b><\/p>\n

Postulation for the Cause of Beatification Luisa Piccarreta<\/b>
\nPalazzo Arcivescoville<\/b>
\n70059 Trani (BA) Italy<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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