A distinguished psychiatrist recognizes Medjugorje as an authentic place of apparitions

A PSYCHIATRIC INSIGNE RECOGNIZES Medjugorie (Prof. C. Trabucchi)

Prof. Cherubina Trebucchi, internationally renowned neuropsychiatrist, former director of psychiatric hospitals and mental health services in the province of Verona, has been a member of the Comité International of the Buresò Medcal of Lourdes since 1960 in charge of examining the alleged cases - miraculous things that happen in that place. Of this Comité, which among the thousands of cases examined has recognized it as humanly inexplicable only 64 from 1858 to today, there are about thirty doctors and scientists, believers and non-believers. Prof. Trabucchi participated in it for Italy.

In 1983, he learned of the "facts" of Medjugorje casually. Then, in 1985, in August, he proposed to the President of the Comité of Lourdes, Prof. Kammerer, that the Comité himself was interested in Medjugorje. They replied privately: "You can see he's really sick ...".

On May 31, 1986, unexpectedly, he received a letter from the same president Prof. Kammerer, psychiatrist from - Strasbourg, in which he invited to prepare a "Presentation" of the Scientific Dossier on Medjugorje, published by ARPA in Milan. Prof. Trabucchi devoted himself to this work during the holidays of July 1986, while he was in Pietralba with his family. After the work, he sent it to Lourdes where, after being translated into French, it was read to the Comité on 20 September 1986, together with a similar work by Prof. Kammerer, who had examined another scientific dossier, that of]. Prof. J. Joyeux and Réné Laurentin: "Medical and Scientific Studies on the Apparitions of Medjugorje". The news of the reading of the "Presentation" of the Scientific Dossier on Medjugorje reached Prof. Trabucchi at 11 am on 20 October 1986. At 11.50 on that same morning, the distinguished Veronese professor ceased to live while he was sitting in his usual work chair. He had fallen asleep in the Lord, without suffering. Mrs. Carla, widow of Prof. Trabucchi, while entrusting me with the work of her late husband, authorizing me to dispose of it as and when I think it appropriate, said to me moved: "My merit believed in the apparitions of Medjugorje and the examination of the" Scientific dossier "confirmed this in his faith. Our Lady gave him the gift not to die before he received the news that was so dear to him: the reading of his work at the Comité International in Lourdes. Then he took it with him to Heaven ... ".

Here are some significant steps of the "Presentation" of the Scientific Dossier on Medjugorje elaborated by Prof. Cherubino Trabucchi:

"... In Medjugorje small facts with enormous consequences are far from any factor of suggestion, enthusiasm, fanaticism. A technical, rational, scientific research aims to test all this ... "" ... Of particular interest, because the fact does not seem to me to be emphasized with such evidence by other researchers and observers is that the visionaries in the apparitions have a fixed face and gaze at the same point. This is also well documented in the photographs: the different stature and the different position of the boys allow us to underline that their gaze is not only towards the same side, as generally observed by everyone, but it is precisely the looks that converge towards the same point; and this is very expressive about the object of their gaze ... ".

“Of great interest are the conclusions of neuropsychiatric evaluation by Dr. E. Gabrici, psychiatrist. He describes with the simplicity of a clear and mature psychiatric relationship, without deviations and interferences of languages ​​intoxicated by psychological mentalities, the mimicry, the precision of the positive or negative responses, if it is a matter for which young people cannot be prepared, and aspects of absolute normality of young people also in personal life, with particular regard also to youthful manifestations of fatigue and the need for distraction in accordance with age. ".." Very interesting, and I consider it particularly topical and corrective towards many research guidelines, the fact highlighted by Dr. Giorgio Gagliardi in a meeting with the visionary Vicka (09. 09.85). This, without giving hindsight, declares itself available to do everything that the examiners can ask, but she questioned the Madonna about it. This told her that the experiments "are not necessary" and repeated it for three consecutive days; then she obeys Our Lady and will not undergo experiments; but only because the Madonna does not want it ".

At the end of his work, Prof. Trabucchi also mentions some humanly inexplicable events that took place in Medjugorje. In particular, he recalls 6 extraordinary healings that deserve special attention for the circumstances that accompanied them.

In the correspondence between Prof. Trabucchi and the head of the Comité of Lourdes, there are interesting observations like this:

To Prof. Mangiapan (Lourdes), on August 30, 1986: "There is a whole change in the orientation of psychiatry corresponding to my vision:" human person "not only" man "!

So our responsibility right now is particularly remarkable. And Medjugorje is a great flag of redemption but in this sense ".

This is the testimony of a "lay person", a man open to what science suggests, scrupulous in observing the laws, but above all a careful observer of what God accomplishes for his people, also through the presence of the Mother among her children . He had found, not only through the study of the scientific dossier, but above all through direct experience, which many, even among his patients, had taken away from Medjugorje, a charge for a new, different life, lived in peace. And for this reason he was convinced that Our Lady in Medjugorje knew how to penetrate even the most closed hearts to open them to a more human existence. For this reason, on August 24, 1986 he wrote to Prof. Kammerer (Strasbourg) to greet him Archbishop Donze, bishop of Lourdes, who reminded him of "Our Lady of Lourdes, Fatima and Medjugorje" as if to say: "The Mother makes herself present today me in the past, looking for his children. She, who calls them "dear": DEAR CHILDREN, DEAR MY CHILDREN, DEAR CHILDREN ... "