Saint
Marie Alphonsine Ghattas (1843-1927), recently canonized by Pope
Francis in Rome, was favored with several Marian apparitions.
Our Lady
confided to her one day during an apparition her great desire to found a
Palestinian congregation that would bear the name of the Sisters of the
Rosary. She even saw in a vision nuns dressed in a blue habit, while
she heard at the same time the Virgin reproach her for her slowness to
act on her request.
The
apparitions of Our Lady left her languishing to give herself totally to
God. "I was hungry to endure hardship. I delighted in all that was
bitter and painful. Loneliness was paradise to my heart and obedience
was the heaven of my mind. I found the orders of Superiors easy to
follow," she wrote in her diary. The congregation finally materialized
in 1880.
The life
of Marie Alphonsine was marked by the recitation of the meditated
rosary, and her intense prayer obtained miracles while she was alive. In
1885, a girl from the school of the Sisters of Jaffa in Galilee, near
Nazareth, having fallen into a tank full of water, was saved when Sister
Marie Alphonsine lowered down her Rosary to the girl.
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