Miracle in Medjugorje: cured of deafness

"At mass I started hearing the voices again"

Domenico Mascheri, 87 years old, could only hear thanks to two ear prostheses, but now he no longer uses them.

Cesena, 2 October 2011 - AFTER forty years of deafness, he suddenly began to hear again and now he no longer needs hearing aids. At Villa Chiaviche in Cesena there is already talk of a miracle for what happened on the evening of last Tuesday in Medjugorje, during the mass, to Domenico Mascheri, 87 years old brought very well.
When did you start to suffer from deafness?
"In the seventies I started with my left ear - remember - I put on the hearing aid, but after some time I started having problems in the other ear too and for ten years I had the hearing aid in both ears".
Had he ever been to Medjugorje before?
"No. I had always seen the apparitions of Our Lady of Medjugorje on television and I had the desire to go there. From the first time I heard about miracles, I said to myself that I had to go there. Then thanks to my nephew Orlando Testi who had already been there, a week ago I finally left with a group by bus ».
What Happened in Medjugorje?
«We arrived at the shrine last Sunday, September 25, in the morning. On Monday 26th I realized that I had two hearing aids with dead batteries. I found myself in a world of my own, because I saw others move their lips, but I didn't feel. My wife called me from home, but I didn't hear her and I couldn't speak to her. Then, on my return, she told me that she was screaming but I didn't hear. There was no possibility of
to find spare batteries and I resigned myself to continue my pilgrimage in total deafness ».
Did he go to the apparition mountain?
«On Tuesday I climbed with the help of a stick the whole part of the mountain where the apparitions of the Madonna took place. Then in the evening what I never expected happened ».
That?
«At 18 pm together with five people from my group we went to mass outside in the large square in front of the sanctuary. I sat on a bench, but not hearing what the priest said I prayed for myself, so much I could not answer the celebrant. Then suddenly while reciting the Ave Maria, about halfway through the mass I started hearing the voice of the parish priest who slowly increased. I didn't know what
to do. I touched my ears, but I didn't have hearing aids. The celebrant's voice increased in intensity, and at some point it became so loud to me, accustomed to deafness, that I thought I was dreaming. When I realized I was hearing with my ears without any artificial aid, I started to cry, but I didn't have the courage to say anything to my traveling companions ».
But they didn't notice it?
«During the mass no. In the evening at dinner at some point he could not keep this miracle inside me anymore and I told everyone out loud that the batteries had arrived. Everyone asked me where I had found them and I replied "They rained from Heaven". Everyone understood, they got up, they hugged me and then we had a party ».
What was the biggest emotion?
"We went home on Thursday and my wife still doesn't believe it, because now after forty years she has stopped screaming to talk to me."
Have you always been a believer?
"Since I was a child. I have a devotion to Jesus, the Madonna and all the saints. I have had an adventurous life and an unshakable faith has always supported me ».
Did you go to the doctor?
"On Monday I will go to my family doctor and my specialist, of course without the appliances stuck in his ears, carrying all the tests done in these forty years."
And the church?
«Someone has already called Radio Maria and in any case I will inform the parish priest as soon as possible. For me it is a miracle, but doctors and religious personnel will have to establish it. I only know that after so many years of suffering, I no longer need those appliances that have been useful to me, but nobody can understand how well I am now without. It could only have been Our Lady who got our hands on it. I'm like rejuvenated and
I feel even less the weight of my 87 years. And all this thanks to the Madonnina ».