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Jul 6 13 tweets 4 min read
The miracle that baffled science.

In 8th century Italy, a doubting priest raised the bread at Mass, it turned into living heart tissue.

In the 1970s, the Vatican invited secular scientists to conduct 500+ tests.

What they found defied biology.

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The priest—tormented by disbelief in Christ’s Real Presence—was celebrating Mass in the town of Lanciano.

But at the moment of consecration, the bread visibly became flesh, and the wine turned to blood.

Those present were stunned.
(Source: EWTN, St. Michael’s Center)
Jul 4 13 tweets 4 min read
In 1973, in a quiet convent in Japan, a statue of the Virgin Mary began to weep.

She cried 101 times tears confirmed to be human.
Over 500 people, including non-Christians, saw it.

The Church approved it.
And Mary gave a dire warning for us.

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It began with Sr. Agnes Sasagawa, a deaf convert from Buddhism living in Akita.

She reported visions, interior messages, and strange lights from the tabernacle.

Then, on June 28, 1973, the wooden statue of Mary began to bleed from the right hand.

(Source: EWTN, Diocese of Niigata)Image
Jul 3 17 tweets 5 min read
In 1968, Cairo traffic froze. A woman in glowing white stood on the roof of a church.
Thousands watched in silence.
She returned again the next night.
And again.
And again—for 3 years.
This is the most publicly witnessed Marian apparition in history. 🧵👇Image
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The church was St. Mary’s in Zeitoun.

It was built in 1925 after a Coptic man claimed Mary appeared to him in a dream, asking for a church on that very spot.

She told him: “A miracle will happen here one day.”
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Jul 2 10 tweets 4 min read
70,000 stood in a muddy field—priests and atheists, farmers and journalists.

They came to see if three children were telling the truth.
What happened next made even skeptics fall to their knees.

This is the Miracle of Fátima:
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For six months, three children said the Virgin Mary was appearing to them in Fátima, Portugal.
She told them to pray, and promised a final miracle on October 13, 1917.
Each month, the crowd grew.

By October, 70,000 people had shown up to see if it was real.

(Documented in newspaper records and witness accounts archived by the Diocese of Leiria-Fátima.)Image
Jun 30 12 tweets 4 min read
In 1884, Pope Leo XIII had a vision.
He saw Satan unleashed on the world—with permission to try to destroy the Church.

What followed was a prophecy, a collapse at the altar, and a prayer that still echoes today.

This is the origin of the St. Michael Prayer 🧵Image
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October 13, 1884. The Vatican.

After finishing Mass, Pope Leo XIII suddenly stopped.
His face went pale.
He collapsed.
Some thought he had died.

He later described hearing a chilling conversation between Christ and Satan.
(Source: Fr. Domenico Pechenino, Ephemerides Liturgicae, 1955)Image