The statuette of the Madonna cried 101 times ...

On June 12, 1973, Sister Agnese hears a voice (the religious is completely deaf), and while praying she sees a bright light coming from the tabernacle, this phenomenon occurs for several days.

On June 28, a cross-shaped wound appears on her left hand, it is very painful and causes her a copious loss of blood.

On July 6, the day of the first apparition, he first sees his guardian angel and then hears a voice coming from the statue of the Virgin Mary. On the same day, some of his sisters notice blood coming out of the statue's right hand. The blood flows from a cross-shaped wound identical to that of Sister Sasagawa.

Shortly thereafter, Sister Agnese received a message from Our Lady asking her to pray for the Pope, the bishops and priests and in reparation for men's ills.

In the second apparition, on August 3, the Virgin said among other things to Sister Agnes: "... In order for the world to know His anger, Heavenly Father is preparing to inflict a great punishment on all humanity ...".

On October 13, 1973, she receives the last and most important message in which Our Lady gives some important indications on the nature and consequences of retribution. It will be a punishment greater than the Flood (from the time of Noah) and will take place by means of the fire from Heaven which will annihilate much of humanity, good and bad, without sparing neither religious nor faithful. Furthermore, the Blessed Virgin speaks of the divisions, corruption and persecutions that will affect the Church, by the Evil One, in the near future.

The angel who first visited Sister Agnese continued to speak to her for the following 6 years.

On January 4, 1975 the wooden statue from which Sister Agnese had heard the Virgin's voice begin to weep. The statuette cried 101 times over the next six years and 8 months. A Japanese TV troop, while making a report on Akita's events, was able to film the statue of the Madonna while crying.

On several occasions, the statue of the Madonna also sweated profusely and, according to various witnesses, the sweat gave off a sweet scent. A cross-shaped wound appeared from the palm of his right hand from which blood spilled. Hundreds of people have been direct witnesses to these prodigious events.

Several scientific investigations have been carried out on the blood and tears produced by the statue. The analyzes conducted by Professor Sagisaka of the Faculty of Legal Medicine of the University of Akita, confirmed that the blood, tears and sweat were real and of human origin. They were of three blood groups: 0, B and AB.

In 1981, a Korean woman, Ms. Chun, with end-stage brain cancer obtained immediate healing while praying in front of the statuette. The miracle was confirmed by Dr. Tong-Woo-Kim of the St. Paul Hospital in Seoul and by Don Theisen president of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Seoul. The second miracle was the complete recovery from the total deafness of Sister Agnese Sasagawa.

In April 1984, Monsignor John Shojiro Ito, bishop of Niigata in Japan, after an extensive and thorough investigation lasting several years, declared that Akita's events are to be considered of supernatural origin and authorized the veneration of the Holy Mother in the entire diocese by Akita.

The bishop said, "Akita's message is the continuation of the Fatima message."

In June 1988 Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Holy See, expressed a definitive judgment on the matter defining the events of Akita that are reliable and worthy of faith.