Devotion to the Madonna: the true face of Mary Most Holy

 

THE TRUE FACE OF MARY HOLY
History of the image left by the Virgin
in a meeting with the "Servant of God" Luigina Sinapi with the message:
"Do what He tells you"
The "gift" of the Madonna to Luigina
It seems incredible, yet it is true! It is the fact of the impression of His Face that
Luigina received one day from the Madonna herself, in a meeting she had over the years
'60. Many people close to Luigina at that time were lucky enough to hear from
his own lips this story.
I myself was one of these. I had had the good
to know her and to participate in those moments of intimacy in which she lingered
on the extraordinary events of his life.
Speaking of this image and the mysterious beauty of the Face, Luigina spontaneously raised the desire to want to know more, to know the origin and meaning of certain details. Just to meet these legitimate questions, I wanted to collect these memories so that they are not lost.
Luigina Sinapi showed me the image of the Madonna in the late 60s. Me
a few years earlier, he had brought Don Giuseppe Tomaselli into his home
Salesian of holy life. She went to get her out of the room where she received, and
approaching me he remained standing with the image in his hand, presenting it to the
eyes.
"Can I kiss her?" - I asked her. And I kissed the picture frame glass.
The image, as indicated by Mons. Guglielmo Zannoni, was of the dimensions
of 10 x 14. the frame that contained it, gold, shaped, was adorned with gems of
various colors.
A thought crossed my mind: I am before the Mother of God, my eyes
they are seeing His Face. Intimately excited, but also warmly
surprised, I remarked: "she is so beautiful!". And I meant: beautiful in an unimaginable way,
absolutely other. In front of the true image, the images to which they are used i
our eyes, they disappear. But "beautiful", also because dressed, adorned.
"But the 'Mama' is not a bacucca, as many people think!", Was Luigina's reply, catching in the wave of emotion also a vein of wonder for such a shining - divine, but also human - beauty. Luigina told me how she had received the gift of that image, and over time, other details participated.
She waited, like every first Saturday of the month, for the visit of the "Mamma" in her home in via Urbino, and more precisely in her chapel; but that Saturday there

- Among the people closest to Luigina at that time were: P. Raffaele Preite, his
Spiritual Director of the Order of the Servants of Mary; Hon. Prof. Enrico Medi; Don Attilio
Malacchini, Paolino; Giuliano Di Renzo, OP; Prof. Giuseppina Cardillo Azzaro.
Madonna had not come. Luigina became sad and, to console herself, she thought of projecting some sacred images, and in particular the slides of the Holy Places. This habit increased after the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, which took place in August 1967.
On the wall that acts as a screen, here comes the slide in order
of the locality, Cana, place of the evangelical "Wedding Feast", where Jesus "gave
beginning of his miracles ”.
Suddenly the scene comes alive for the real presence of the Mother of Jesus who
the Son intercedes. Maria is dressed in the Wedding Dress, and is adorned with the "jewels of the House of David", a gift from the Groom Giuseppe: two magnificent pearl earrings and a similar fibula on the humerus to stop the slight cadence of the mantle. An impalpable fabric, almost a veil, white, rests on his head. In a first pose the Virgin is turned with her eyes to the Son and says to him: "They no longer have wine".
In another pose, the second, the image shows the virginal semblant of the
"Woman", when the Mother of Jesus, addressed to the servants, utters the arcane words:
"Do what He tells you."
"In me you will find Jesus"
In the act of going away the Madonna says to Luigina: “I leave you a gift,
see! ", and adds:" In Me you will find Jesus. "

- The testimony is of Don Attilio Malacchini, Paolino, who was with her on that pilgrimage, and,
subsequently, Luigina provided the projector, rented near Porta Cavalleggeri, as well as slides.
- Maria habitually wore the costume of her people, made of gray fabric.

Luigina notes that the presence of the Mother of Jesus at the "Wedding at Cana" has impressed the material used for the projection twice, producing the portrait of the Mother of God in two different poses. It will call
M the effigy "The Virgin at the Wedding at Cana".
The evangelical "Wedding Party" is the mysterious womb from which the image arose.
What more beautiful "gift" could the "Mother" have left her? Most wanted?
But Luigina was also the custodian of a maternal notice: “In me you will find
Jesus, "the" Mother "had said to her when she left.
What mysterious words, these! Luigina does not initially understand them. His faith,
faith of "events matured in silence", becomes an industrious expectation. The need arises
to decipher the meaning of the arcane words. The jubilation of the maternal "gift" was
crossed by that question. And here, suddenly, the sublime, consoling
discovery: in the beautiful and holy Face of the "Mother", there was - there is - clearly visible, the Face of
Jesus.
The part must be covered with a white sheet
left of the Mother's Face, so that on the right side a shape, equal and different, emerges: the image of the Son. The semblances of the Son and the Son and the Mother are the same, but not identical, in the traits and expressions.
Luigina seeks confirmation of her discovery and finds it convincingly in the only irreparable term of comparison: the features of the Savior present in the Face of the "Woman" who intercedes at the Wedding at Cana, conform to the divine appearance of the Man of the Shroud, the only archetype of Man-God.
In the gift made by the "Mother" to Luigina, "the Son of Mary" conforms in features to the Face of the Mother. But the Mother, "Daughter of His Son", conforms to Him.
When Luigina showed Mary's adorable face in Mary's face, she was taken by an intimate consolation. This was the biggest message of the image: "There - and that is in Me - you will find Jesus," said the "Mother".