Priest would no longer have walked but the Virgin Mary acted in one night (VIDEO)

Father Mimmo Minafra, Italian, was informed that he could no longer walk after being operated on for a spinal cord tumor. The priest, however, entrusted himself to the Virgin Mary and lived an experience that changed his life. He tells it Church Pop.

During the years of the seminary, Father Mimmo Minafra received as a gift an image of Virgin of Tears of Syracuse.

"From an iconographic point of view it was my Marian point of reference, because since I received the painting as a gift from the Mother Superior of the Sisters of Mother Teresa, I have never abandoned it", said the man of the Church.

And again: “The image has a particular language because Mary does not speak but has one hand on her heart and the other turned towards herself, as if to say: 'I am your mother, I love you with all my heart. When you need to come to me because in my heart I have discovered all the secrets of God '”.

The priest said that the image has always accompanied him since that day.

Years pass and, one day, here is the diagnosis of spinal cord tumor. Then the exams and hospital visits began. Father Mimmo Minafra recalled:

"I also saw my parents, especially my mother, crying next to me ... I looked at the painting of the Virgin and said: 'Virgin, listen, if I have to be a priest and be in a wheelchair, just give me the strength to know accept this new condition of mine, because at this moment I do not accept it ”.

Father Mimmo Minafra was then transferred to a hospital specializing in cancer treatment and underwent surgery for the tumor. However, the doctors had told his family that he would no longer walk and he would have to use a wheelchair to get around.

The priest recalled: “They would have saved my life but I would have been paralyzed. I said to Our Lady: 'Well, let's continue' ”.

After the operation, the priest was taken to theIntensive Care Unit. He remembers trying to sleep while holding the Holy Rosary and he began to think about all those who were suffering.

“I had two things in mind: first, sick children because, looking at my mother, I imagined how mothers feel when their children get sick. This was the thought I had. Then I said to myself: 'Well, I'll celebrate the Messiah in a wheelchair' ”.

And something inexplicable happened. “One night I felt very nauseous and started to get cold feet, which were out of bed, because they are all small due to my height. I got up all of a sudden, almost as if someone were standing next to me ”.

"The doctor came in and said to me: 'But you shouldn't be there!" He had a hard time admitting that I was standing. And then I went home. What I am today is exactly what happened years ago. For this reason, since then, I have always lived my priestly life, remembering that I always owe my 'thank you' to Mary ”.

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