Three fountains: Bruno Cornacchiola tells how he saw the Madonna

Then one day, April 12, 1947, you were the protagonist of an event that made your life change course. In an infamous and peripheral area of ​​Rome, you "saw" the Madonna. Can you briefly say how exactly things went?

Here we must make a premise. Among the Adventists I had become director of missionary youth. In this capacity I tried to educate the youth to reject the Eucharist, which is not the real presence of Christ; to reject the Virgin, who is not Immaculate, to reject the Pope who is not infallible. I had to talk about these subjects in Rome, in Piazza della Croce Croce, on April 13, 1947, which was Sunday. The day before, Saturday, I wanted to take my family to the countryside. My wife was sick. I took the children with me alone: ​​Isola, 10 years old; Carlo, 7 years old; Gianfranco, 4 years old. I also took the Bible, a notebook and a pencil, to write notes on what I had to say the following day.

Without dwelling on me, while the children play, they lose and find the ball. I play it with them, but the ball is lost again. I'm going to find the ball with Carlo. Isola goes to pick some flowers. The youngest child remains alone, seated at the foot of an eucalyptus tree, in front of a natural cave. At some point I call the boy, but he doesn't answer me. Concerned, I approach him and see him kneeling in front of the cave. I hear him murmur: "Beautiful lady!" I think of a game. I call Isola and this comes with a bunch of flowers in her hand and she kneels too, exclaiming: "Beautiful lady!"

Then I see that Charles also kneels and exclaims: «Beautiful lady! ». I try to get them up, but they seem heavy. I get scared and wonder: what happens? I am not thinking of an apparition, but of a spell. Suddenly I see two very white hands coming out of the cave, they touch my eyes and I don't see them anymore. Then I see a magnificent, shining light, as if the sun had entered the cave and I see what my children call the "Beautiful Lady". She is barefoot, with a green coat on her head, a very white dress and a pink band with two flaps up to the knee. In his hand he has an ash-colored book. She speaks to me and says to me: "I am what I am in the divine Trinity: I am the Virgin of Revelation" and adds: "You persecute me. Thats enough. Enter the fold and obey. » Then he added many other things for the Pope, for the Church, for the saderdotes, for the religious.