Mystic Blessed Anna Maria Taigi
Anna Maria sees the future in the sun of light Anna Maria’s husband and mother were quarreling. There was barely enough bread to eat. Envious housewives were spreading scandals about Anna Maria and her priest-secretaries. A devastating sadness came over her. When she approached the door of her home, Anna Maria saw what appeared to be a blinding sun encircled by a crown of thorns, with two thorns wrapped around it as if in an embrace. A young woman was seated in the center and appeared to be meditating. Anna Maria was made to understand she represented Eternal Wisdom.11 A hazy film covered the sun, dimming the brightness of its rays. An inner voice said this would clear, and the light would become brighter as she reached a higher degree of purification. Sounds poetic, doesn’t it? But gold is purified by fire! Anna Maria would suffer greatly to bring about the sanctification necessary to burn away the veil of fog that blocked her vision from seeing all the Lord had prepared for her, how she could grow in God’s perfection, how she would be able to aid the Church Militant and pray for the Church Suffering.12 Right up to her death, whenever she looked into the sun, Anna Maria was able to prophesy the future and discern the present; she could read the secret recesses of men’s hearts and reveal the most hidden dreams and thoughts of the rich and the poor, the famous and the infamous alike. For forty-seven years, day and night, at home, in church or in the street, as the light became increasingly brighter, Anna Maria was able to see things on earth, both physical and spiritual. She penetrated the depths of hell and soared to the heights of Heaven. She saw shipwrecks in far-off seas and heard the anguished cries of those drowning. She entered prisons in China and Arabia and heard the agonized cries of prisoners whose only crime was they were priests. She suffered with them, as she witnessed the inhumane torture endured by religious, slaves and prisoners alike. Cardinal Pedicini said that although she withheld nothing from him out of obedience, she took equally strong measures to keep herself hidden from those who had benefited from her revelations from the sun. She wanted no reward, no recognition, no recompense of any kind. She was a seer at twenty-one years old and would live for close to fifty years, till her death, in almost continuous, never-ending ecstasy. She derived no pleasure from it and feared it was of diabolical origin, until her spiritual advisor assured her it was the work of the Divine. Jesus told Anna Maria she was to convert sinners, console people of all walks of life, priests, bishops, religious and even "His Vicar." He spoke of the Graces, those who listen to her words, would receive. But he also warned, she would meet false and treacherous people, she would be scorned and ridiculed and scandal would be spread about her, but she would live through it, out of love for Him. She protested, she was too weak for this great task. Our Lord replied, "It is I Who will guide you by the hand, as a lamb is led by the shepherd, to the Altar of Sacrifice." God had chosen from the humble and poor, a wife, a mother, a servant to save His Church, to save the world. She was called by Him to obtain the remission of the world’s sins. We were again at a time when the people of God were living in a world where God was ridiculed if at all acknowledged, the clergy massacred, Pope after Pope was dragged from prison to prison, churches desecrated, Christianity drowning in a bottomless pool of blood. Our Lord said to Anna Maria that He had chosen her to be a martyr! The Church has always been sanctified by the blood of those who not only loved her but freely gave all, shedding their last ounce of blood for her. 11 Our Lady has, as one of her titles: "Seat of Wisdom". On his TV program on the Catechism on EWTN, Bishop David Foley explained this title in the following way: Jesus as all-knowing God is Infinite Wisdom. Mary, as His Mother, provides the perfect lap (perfect seat) for her young Son.12 The Church Suffering are those in PurgatoryReference: Visionaries, Mystics and Stigmatist by Bob and Penny Lord Visit our other sites: New! CommentsHave your say about what you just read! Leave me a comment in the box below. |
