“OUR LADY” AT SEVEN OAKS - Bolzano

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INTRODUCTION

In the postwar years there have been many exceptional mystical phenomena like appearances, visions, divine messages, that have taken place practically in many countries. The well known interested on the subject Rene Laurentin has studied hundreds such cases, publishing many books on these matters which are available at Catholic bookshops. There is quite a number of authors that have written on the subject and it may suffice to recall the international fame of Dr. Laurentin, his former studies at Lourdes and his down-to-earth scientific findings.
On the other hand it is useless to try and convince skeptics and the modern “Pharisees”, because even now – as they used to be before- they are extremely intransigent towards anything that causes them to take a distance from their comfortable situation to which they have devoted their priesthood. From those who teach that God’s miracles were only symbolic or pious factual stories forthcoming from a primitive community which doubted about the Real Presence in the Eucharist, how can one expect these people to show an interest for such appearances?
Forgetting that without the appearances of Jesus after the Resurrection, the Church would not have even been born, they deny God and Our Lady the freedom not so much to confirm new doctrines but to get in touch with their children. Or otherwise they don’t care about creating systematic obstructionism.
Mystical phenomena have always existed in the history of the Church but not with today’s intensity and global extension as in our century, particularly during its second period. But the Church is divided in two factions: on the one side those who genuinely still believe in the supernatural, on the other those who assert that they believe in it but are intent to make history advance at the same time only by means of human effort, of reason ,activity, efficiency, “culture” thus downplaying the Tradition(Eucharist) to a plain inspiration and abstraction. There is a fake(false)ecumenical movement which is denying the Catholic truths with the object of closing a final agreement at any price with the Protestant thought in the name of modern times, whereas in the background signs of non-christianity, of syncretism and New Age, a future new Age of ecological sinners universally dancing around the “golden calf”, tragic parody of a godless palingenesis(=renewal) are making their appearance.
On which side does the successor of Peter stand? Everybody knows the answer, but it might be less known that in the Vatican itself one third is in his favour and two thirds are against him.
God’s people are in chaos, pressurised from every corner by the unleashed movements of materialism and triumphant hedonism.
As Laurentin loves to say “the world has happily surrendered to sin and is running towards its own destruction”.
The word “sin ” itself arouses embarrassment or aversion and nobody talks about it, as if it were a matter of the past. But the horrible daily local and world media factually contradict such illusion .In this overall view of extreme evils, why should not God resort to extreme unusual remedies?>
And alas, the extraordinary is among us, he who has eyes can see. Who goes as a pilgrim (not as a tourist) to a place where such appearances happen, can often draw his own conclusions.
The extraordinary is not always a prerequisite for faith, it is a free and mysterious God given gift and in order to fulfil the conversion belief, deeds and inner peace are necessary.
It is not absolutely essential for salvation, but to deny it or ridicule it is reckless.

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It all started during the night on Sept.20th. 1976.

I dreamt to be in St.Peter’s Square in Rome: the Pope was speaking from his balcony and there were individuals trying to throw him down. I shouted: no! no! and with one hand I pushed him back inside. Soon afterwards he was still talking from the central lodge of the Basilica and even from there they tried to push him over; I shouted again and by force placed him back in his normal posture.
At this point a Voice told me:
Why do you want to save the Pope?
I replied:
I want to save him!
The Voice then set forth:
the Pope’s destiny is a violent death; only you can change his destiny.

I woke up breathless and ran into the bathroom to refresh my face, thinking about this strange dream.
The Voice repeated:
- it wasn’t a dream, it’s Us that want to talk to you.

It looked as if somebody wanted to read my mind. The Voices were normally two talking in turns and I understood that they were the Voices of Jesus and of the Holy Spirit. I looked around but did not see anybody, the Voice seemed to come from nowhere. Disturbed I went back to my room and lay on the bed, trying to regain sleep and not to ponder over it. But the Voice started again and said:
- Come with Us and we will show you what you have to do.
Then something fantastic happened together with a wonderful sensation: it was like a hurricane, I did not understand anything and noticed that I was leaving my body behind to follow “Them”. I saw my body motionless in the bed while I was moving away.
I felt very well and was just wondering how such a thing could happen, while thinking about the possible reactions of my relatives should they have entered my room.
They brought me to a church near a construction, a kind of mausoleum, which vaguely reminded me about the Dome of Milan, on top it had pointed pinnacles with seams on the sides. They led me holding me by my shoulders: I tried to turn around to see who was guiding me, but they pushed me forward saying:
- Isn’t it enough for you to hear the Voice? Do not look behind you.
I walked sideways of the Church on a ground that looked like a lawn strewn with crosses like a cemetery. When we almost arrived at the end they told me:
- On the surrounding wall there is a detached piece of plaster with a peculiar shape, like an image: you’ll find it on the wall: this image is a sign which together with a similar other sign, will show you the place in which you can save the Pope. This place is actually in a certain village : tomorrow report everything to sister X of the Institute of St. Nicholas at Merano, otherwise people might think you are insane, but with its testimony it won’t be so.

On the following morning I woke up completely relaxed, although I knew that I had never slept; I got into my car as usual and drove to work in the direction of Merano and while seeing the usual customers, I was always thinking about what had happened during the night. The “Voices” were advising me from time to time what I had to do: it was already midday and after lunch I went to the Institute of St. Nicholas looking for sister X . She came and I told her:
- Sister, today I did not come to sell anything but to disclose to you what happened last night. She listened attentively and then said:
- Let’s wait and if the Voices are real everything will realise itself.
I begged her not to say anything to anybody else and that I would update her daily in case of a follow up. I greeted and left.
On the following night I prayed, I went to bed always remembering what had happened and the Voices immediately began talking to me again. I was awake, I was hearing the Voices, I was answering and they were discussing with me, but I could not see anybody. They told me:
- You will achieve great things and you shall change the world.
I replied:
- I am not worthy of all this, I am a sinner, there are priests, Bishops and Cardinals, persons that are more suitable than me, holy persons whose prominence I cannot attain.
- You have been chosen to do great things and you shall turn the world upside down, but out of all this –should you do it - you shall not reap either gold or honour.
I immediately answered:
- Yes I’ll do it
They said:
- From this moment you are endowed with the Holy Spirit and you shall keep It until you live.
I felt immediately a circle tightening my head above my eyebrows. I got out of bed and ran crying to the bathroom where I refreshed my face, while the tears continued flowing because of my emotional condition. But they continued talking to me about the task which had been entrusted to me explaining this with peaceful and indescribable visions and sensations. And so the morning was breaking; I got up and to my great surprise I felt relaxed and astonished by the fact that I had not slept the whole night, rethinking about all the wonderful things I was experiencing. Just me? Chosen for such a great mission! Was it ever possible that God had chosen me?
I drove off to Merano and reported everything to sister X asking her not to tell a word to the other sisters. But the other sisters saw me and asked me why I was not talking to them: I answered that I could not. I spent that day as well praying in praise and thankfulness; while I was going from one customer to another, the Three ( God Almighty intervened only once) were giving me instructions and details about what they had been telling and showing me during the night, while I renewed the vow that my life was completely devoted for that mission.
In the meantime the circle around my head was squeezing me tightly, so I stretched my right hand on the forehead and to my great surprise I felt the pressure weaken, while

my eardrums were pulsating strongly; I also touched them and the vibrations decreased.
I must explain that in those days, while I was looking at myself into the mirror, I noticed mysterious red blood spots around and in the middle of my forehead: I tried to wipe them off but it did not work, they were ineffaceable. I was worried about my appearance ( how could I go to my clients in that condition?) and called my mother and my sister to verify what had happened. They had a look and were disturbed and touched at this sight. Since I did not know what to do and being unable to hide those marks, trusting in Providence I went all the same for my usual working schedule. To my great surprise the customers did not make any remarks and did not notice anything unusual; evidently the good Lord did hide those signs from their eyes allowing me to go after my ordinary routine.
Practically my attention was shared between taking orders of frozen foods and my wonderful interior experience which I was going through. And this happened continuously for ten consecutive days and nights, without feeling tired, on the contrary I was wishing this would never end.
I was always hearing the Voices coming from behind my right shoulder. They were speaking and telling me:
- Report this also to the other nuns next time you go back to them.
I argued that I could not stop there for a long time, since I had carry on with my work.
- Do not worry,we’ll provide for your work; tell the Mother Superior that she has to be pleased and that we also are thinking about her; tell her that the Pope shall be her guest at the college for two nights.
So I then started to tell that a mountain had been chosen by God from which the salvation of the world would be forthcoming; on this mountain a” college for the teaching of the Gospel” would be founded, whence men and women of all nations would begin their journey to divulge the word of God.
At this stage I explained that this was a dream, but I just ended uttering this statement that a loud and authoritative Voice resounded within me saying:
- You will see this mountain also at daytime while the sun is shining as well as the signs ,so that you may gain a better understanding!

*1. Charismatic and clairvoyants do not understand half truths, urged as they are by their live and doubtless experience. Therefore they do not heed about hints but approach immediately the essence of the matter. To the ordinary reader , specially if he is a local, it seems exaggerated that the “salvation of the world” has its roots in an unknown part of the Alto Adige! But this can effectively be interpreted in the perspective of the “New Evangelisation” so badly wanted by the Church, similar to a vast spiritual global renewal movement to which peculiar concrete facts converge.

This very strong voice impressed me deeply; I believe that the Almighty wanted to underline this fact with his intervention.
- This mountain has been chosen by God, things shall happen here to the astonishment of the whole world. On the top of it the “Seminary” will be constructed and next to it a small Church where the painting and the statue of “Our Lady” will be placed. The painting shall be personally brought by the Pope and he himself will unveil the Seminary and place the image of the Virgin Mary.
He shall ascend the mountain on the back of a Palestinian donkey (*2). From this very moment the image will work miracles, people will go on that mountain in adoring prayer and miracles shall happen. As many persons as there are leaves on the trees of the mountain shall climb it praising God; nobody shall feel hungry or thirsty.

On the following morning everything went on as usual , by then I got accustomed to these supernatural facts. I began my ordinary working day and went back to the St. Nicholas Institute at Merano.

The nun came to meet me and told me:
- Are there any news?
I answered affirmatively and reported what had happened during the night, besides having been granted permission to tell everything to the other sisters as well.
They were summoned and told them my story, explaining that I could take the needed time because my work would be done by “Them”.

*2) Sign of humbleness, remembering what had been done by the Lord during the Palm Celebration.

I also had anticipated by saying that not all the nuns would have believed these things ( as the Voices had foretold me).

When I departed from the college for my usual working round, I knew that at that hour I would not have accomplished anything, mindful that “They” would have done my work. I was definitely convinced about that. I started with my first customer: strangely enough he was at home, which had never happened before. He placed his order and so until late in the evening: I never had sold so much like on that day.
But my surprise was not because of the quantity I had sold, but rather to have found the clients at home at that odd hour.

The following night they came again and told me:
- You have to travel to Rome and talk to the Pope; report what we have told you, that his enemies are close by, that divorce and abortion will take place in order to punish the clergy for its close attachment to temporal life; they as well think too much of politics and money, forgetting often my teachings; if they continue to follow their own interests many others shall join them. Go to Rome and tell this to the Pope.
- But I am unable to discuss all this with the Holy Father; how will I manage to approach the Pope?
- Go to St.Peter’s and look for the person in charge telling him that you wish to talk to the Pope; should he ask you who you are tell him that you come in the name of the Lord! They will guide you to the Pope’s presence: he will stand in the middle, two on his left and two on his right side, you’ll be in the centre. They will start asking you questions; do not worry because we shall be within you; tell him also that the French Monsignore is nothing else but an ambitious person.

I thought by myself: not now during the month of September, I cannot go, I might go in November; in the meantime I could alert the parish priest, who will refer to the Bishop, if it is extremely urgent as you say.
- No, YOU have to go yourself because they could swop your words. Only then I promised I would go.
You can imagine how I felt the day after these events, taken up not only by my work but principally by such thoughts. I was following my business very well and also believed that it was correct to pursue it the proper way, as a matter of fact my way of living began to experience profound changes. Therefore on the following day I travelled rethinking about all these facts and asking myself many questions. And “They” always responded (the direction from which the voice originated was coming from my right side), be it when I was driving the car or when walking.

On that day I was at Scena, a municipality above Merano and drove by near the church. They told me ( it was 3,30 p.m.) :
- Go, go up towards the Church.
I looked at the Church and noticed that close to it there was a small mausoleum, like the one I had seen in my “dream” similar to the Dome in Milan ; I did not pay attention if I was driving the wrong way and went to that direction. I hurried towards the boundary wall to check if there was a figure on the wall’s plaster, but I realised that it was a stone wall without plaster; dissatisfied I went further down but there was nothing to be found.
Then I came up walking around the Church, but I had not seen anything that reminded me of the vision I had in my dream and while I was driving off with the car my eyes were gazing on the walls of the old Church and there I saw the figure that I had been told to look for. It was an old worn out sundial, the shape of which reminded me of a female figure holding a child in her arms.
Satisfied with this evidence I was now thinking where the next sign would be, the real sign that would disclose the chosen mountain.
After my work I drove back to Bolzano. When I reached the village of Seven Oaks the Voice whispered to me:
- Behold!
And an invisible hand, pressing against my right cheek, compelled me to look at my left side. I looked and saw the sign and the mountain as I had been told.
I stopped and cried. It was five in the afternoon. It happened as they foretold me:
- You’ll see everything in the light of the sun!

While I was looking at the mountain I noticed an upright standing impressive isolated rock with the remnants of an old castle above it, while another nearby smaller rock could be seen against the background of the sky, the shape of which reminded the Madonna with the Child.

On the following Thursday I enquired how I could reach that village and I was shown a small path. Having finished my work early, I parked the car at the foot of the mountain and started walking ( I had been told that it would take me one hour to get there) ; I reached a small creek where a log bridged it. While crossing the stream I made the sign of the cross and thought:
- Here I am oh Lord, and for the first time I am putting my feet on the place chosen by You.
I became emotional and began to pray and to cry; many tears poured over my cheeks, not a single leaf was moving, nor the chirping of a bird was to be heard.
Going uphill – I never had wandered up the mountains because I did not like it- I was thinking what I could have offered to the Lord, since I did not have anything to bring.
I weaved a cross with two pieces of wood, thinking to place it under the rock shown to me. Therefore I took two pieces of wood and shaped a cross with the fingers of my left hand: from that moment my arm lay fixed in that position while I continued climbing,
I was praying and crying feeling at the same time great happiness and peace.
I was planning already to return there on the following Sundays with my nephews and bring a bit of cement to build a column on which to place a cross, Our Lady and St.Anthony.
I continued walking uphill along the path (which wasn’t very steep, quite even and broad)for such a period of time that I had not realised to have bypassed the place I was looking for; I then asked a lady farmer where I was and where the castle I had seen from below was located.
She showed me further at the back; I thanked her and at that moment my eyes focused on a nearby column. I walked towards it and –to my great surprise- there were a Cross, Our Lady and St.Anthony, just as I had in mind while walking uphill.
I placed there my wooden cross and went back to see the castle (it was an ancient castle crumbling down) to ascertain if there would have been enough space to build the College(Seminary), but the space wasn’t large enough.
But a bit further to the north there was a bigger field and then, pleased to have seen all this, I looked down into the valley and at that moment two crows started croaking, breaking the silence I had been used to until then.

I started returning praising the Lord for everything and going along a different path by mistake I found myself in front of an abandoned church (ancient church with an attached piece of farmland dedicated to the Saints Cosma and Damiano, now partially refurbished and rented to private persons) with obscene writings and terrible swear words against Christ, Our Lady and the Pope.
I took then some wet paper and began erasing the writings, then I knelt down where there used to be the altar and prayed. I felt strong and determined: had I been a mason, I would have rebuilt it. The following night “They” appeared regularly and showed me how and what would have happened on that mountain.

As usual I “departed” from my body, which lay lifeless on the bed and in a vision many people appeared kneeling, praying and praising God in various languages, the streets were blocked by buses and numerous cars. I was seeing this from a certain height, I felt as if I was overflying the scene; I saw many red robes of Cardinals and Bishops and a white one of the Pope, who was climbing the path riding the small Palestinian donkey with Our Lady’s image in his arms ( I assume it was this, although I could not exactly distinguish what he was carrying with him, also the Pope’s face was not recognisable as if the wanted to hide his identity).
They also told me:
- You shall die on this mountain. You shall place your hands on each person that leaves from here. In the four following days the “Voices” returned frequently and the future rules of the “House” were dictated to me, together with more details about my future mission. (*3)
On the tenth day they heralded to me that it would have been the last time of their presence and that they would have not appeared any more. I gathered my thoughts together and made this prayer and promise:
- Lord you have granted me the gift of conversion and have entrusted me with such a great mission. As from now I promise to bring flowers and candles on Your Holy Altar.
The Lord replied:
- No, from you I do not want flowers nor candles, but something valuable of yourself.
So I donated the whole of myself without any reservation, offering myself totally to His will and said:
- Lord help me to fulfil this offer to serve You to the end of my life!
Twenty two years have gone by and His help has never been lacking. I also posed a naïve question ,not void of a certain feeling of regret and as an answer I received new feed backs:
- Why my Lord did you only call me now that I am at an advanced age and not before when I was younger?
- From St.Joaquin and St.Anna already at an advanced age, my mother Holy Mary was born. From St. Zachariah and St. Elizabeth, who was sterile, John the Baptist was born. You see nothing is impossible for God.
All this happened between the 20th and the 30th. Of September 1976.

(*3) I recall a similar event that took place at Merano in the first years after the war concerning Margherita Mansura. Also she had been asked by God to do her best in order to build a great house of prayer for priests and families that would have become famous in Europe, an important place for conversion and evangelisation. But out of all this only a small chapel remains at the village of St.Benedict in the municipality of Dorf Tyrol, blessed in 1962 by the auxiliary Bishop Mons. Forer. The Lord always has great plans which he entrusts to people who transform them concretely in what they are able to achieve according to the reception, difficulty and hostility they have to face.

On the following evening at about 11 p.m. while I was lying down, thinking about my story and guessing whom I could have trusted to tell it, all of a sudden a huge light coming from the window invaded my room. I opened my arms and said:
- My Lord this is too much for me in such a short time!
As soon as I spoke these words the light dimmed..
After these happenings my lifestyle changed. I started to attend Church again and visited most churches at Bolzano and surroundings, particularly the Church of the Sacred Heart in Roggia street. In this last Church I became a steady patron for the Eucharistic worship which was being held every evening from 21.00 to 22.00 hrs.. On the last Friday of the month of January 1977 at 21.00 hrs., while praying at the Church of the Sacred Heart, my hair began to move while from my forehead trickles of blood started to flow immobilising my head. I stood still in that wonderful posture, I think I was in a real ecstatic condition. I closed my eyes and a white cloud in the form of a human face, which I had never seen before, appeared. First the hair took shape, then the bloodstained forehead, the eyes (closed), the nose, the mouth and the remaining part of the face. It was a marvellous vision and I shouted:
- Speak to me My Lord, speak to me, do not go away!
But the white cloud regained its shape and the vision disappeared. I looked around fearing that the people next to me were staring at me since I had shouted loudly, but instead everybody was absorbed in their prayers as if they had not heard anything.
One week later, always during the evening worship, I noticed a lady reading a flyer with a lovely printed image of Jesus.
I asked her to show it to me and with great emotion I recalled that the image was the “face” I had seen in my vision. I exclaimed that I had seen it and she explained that it was the Holy Face given to St. Veronica, the original of which is in Rome.
Thereafter every evening after worship, Jesus showed himself regularly to me : if I looked towards the monstrance I saw the outline of His head enshrouded by a light; a less impressive vision but nonetheless appreciated. On another occasion I had the same vision of the suffering Holy Face, exactly on May 21st.1977. On other evenings He showed me a strange head and I uttered to my great surprise:
- But Lord! Why do you show me a dog’s head?
On the subsequent evening again the lamb’s head appeared, which I had mistaken for a dog’s head!
Again on the following evening there was the lamb’s head, this time with closed eyes. I was going regularly to that church because I often saw similar marvellous mystical phenomena, also once when I was kneeling in front of the altar of Our Lady.

Up to here the autobiographical history of Toni, history which he had out into writing from its inception, handing it to a trusted priest for reading.
On Nov.2nd.1976, after less than 2 months, as soon as I had a few free days, following the invitation made to him by Jesus, he was in Rome trying to see the Pope.
Unaware of the formalities of the curia, absent from the Church for a long period, with blessed naivety he was knocking at the different doors of the Secretary of State, of the Vicar of Rome, receiving only a charitable denial with the formal coolness, being pushed from one place to another without any result.
He then decided to write twice obtaining only the usual generic answer together with the written duplicated blessings.

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FIRST LETTER TO THE POPE

Most Blessed Father,
My name is Nello Rizzati born on Jan.13th.1933 and live at Bolzano, Bivio str. 22.
After a whole life spent far from God and from the Holy Church, the Lord with his unending goodness and mercy entered into my life and I was converted to Him.
He condescended to talk to me and told me:
“I want to save the world, but I do not need people, theologians, philosophers who wish to add something about themselves besides what I have already revealed. I call to me people, men, women, persons of good will who know and want to walk through the streets and squares of villages and of cities to spread My gospel in a new fashion and with a new method.
The salvation of the world shall begin from these mountains. I have chosen one on which I wish a Chapel with a nearby house be built, where those persons called upon to fulfil this mission shall be trained.
Relate to My Vicar the Roman Pontiff that I would welcome him to come here to this mountain riding a Palestinian donkey as reparation for all the offences made towards me by members of the ecclesiastic hierarchy.
With this act of mercy all the offences made to me shall be forgiven.
Also tell Him that when He comes He shall hold in His arms the portrait of My Mother, the Holy Virgin, a statue or painting as He prefers and from the moment it will be laid in the Church it will work miracles.
Many persons as numerous as the leaves that cover the trees of the mountain shall climb up there hailing and thanking the Lord.
Report to the Holy Father that all this shall happen if He approves it and with His consent all that has been foretold shall happen, but without His approval nothing will come out of it.”
Your Holiness, the Lord has told me to leave everything in Your hands. Already seventeen years ago what I am telling to Your Holiness had been revealed to me.
It’s been one month already that the Holy Spirit is pushing me to give You this message. I cannot withstand this force, I cannot deny this Spirit of Love which is asking me to do so.
With humility I beg Your Holiness to bestow upon me the Apostolic benediction.
Bolzano, 13th. February 1994

There is a second letter addressed to the Pope, in which the seer reports a new appearance of Sept. 27th, 1992.

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IN THE FOLLOWING YEARS

Toni, born at Monselice in 1933 and transferred to Bolzano to pursue the business of his father, had soon stopped attending Church and taking the Sacraments. In the period of absence from his spiritual life he had lived fairly well and did not do anything particularly harmful, he only lived freely taken up by human matters, by his work, by material worries never bothering about his soul.
Interesting is the fact that after 25 years of absence from the Church he attended the Holy Mass: as soon as he stepped into the Church he was surprised that the priest was celebrating the Mass in Italian. He remembered when it was officiated in Latin!
After those 10 days of intense mystical experience nothing could have remained as it used to be before. In the years 1977-1978 and 1979 he went to the Holy Land as a pilgrim and also on those occasions he noticed a special presence of the Lord in his life.
He attended Mass twice a day: in the morning for his own soul and in the evening to pray for the others, particularly to make amendments due to the fact that his relatives never used to attend the service.
Successively he came into contact with a movement called “The renewal of the Spirit” which he attended intensively, following their spiritual approach, specially by attending the meetings with Father Tissot Renato.
In 1985 for the first time he arrived at Medjugorje and went there successively for six times. The last time in 1991 before the war started he personally met the clairvoyant Mirjana to whom he extensively explained his story. On the following year, since Mirjana Dragicevic was at Merano, they had another conversation during which Mirjana reported the words that Our Lady had confided to her with reference to Toni. He was as a matter of fact worried because the years were passing without being able to figure out how he could accomplish the mission bestowed upon him, asking some enlightenment about it. The answer of the Holy Virgin Mary through Mirjana was that “ it would not be necessary to speak about Toni and his case, because She knew it very well and was inviting him to persevere saying daily the Rosary for the unbelievers and to ask to celebrate every month a Mass for the peace on earth”.

THE APPEARANCE OF SEPT. 27TH.,1992

(from the story of Toni)

“ During the month of August 1992 while reciting the Holy Rosary in front of the “column” a white cloud began to take shape, which was to stay for the whole time of the Rosary prayer, appearing every Sunday until Sept.27th.
On Sept.27th. it appeared more dense and in its middle a face of a beautiful young lady appeared with a shawl on her head. She was crying and tears were pouring down and running over her wonderful face, while many tiny flowers were floating within the tears themselves.
At this sight I started crying and moved by this I closed my eyes, but even with closed eyes the vision continued!
A glare put an end to this vision. When I opened the eyes I saw the dazzling sun whirling around and radiating electromagnetic pulsations.
I asked then the people that were praying with me what they were perceiving and also they by seeing such a strange sun were ecstatic at this wonder and appealing to Jesus and Mary. This phenomenon lasted for about a quarter of an hour, after which the prayer of the Rosary was set forth. At the end the white cloud reappeared with the semblance of the face of the young lady, but without the shawl. She had dense dark hair, black in colour, and she was crying. Also in this second vision lots of tears were pouring from her eyes in which tiny flowers were floating. Our Lady did not utter a word but it was all the same an impressive vision,whereas the others had only seen the phenomenon of the sun.”.
Also among human beings words are not needed to transmit feelings, while peculiar ways of expression or attitudes are more efficient conveying them. If Our Lady cries evidently She does so because what She perceives about Her sons is pitiful. If then she cries tears of blood, like in Civitavecchia in the hands of the Bishop, it means that She intends to send a solemn and serious message, a kind of warning that cannot be ignored.
At Seven Oaks she has also shown the sign of the flowers running in Her tears, unusual and unique fact, that can be interpreted as grace from Her to us, donated to those who show an open heart.

 

RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE LOCAL CHURCH

The clairvoyant keeps his Bishop, His Eminence Wilhelm Egger, constantly informed and regularly follows his public preachings on the first Friday of each month.

TODAY’S SITUATION

The newspapers and the local TV of Bolzano, also across the borders, have recently and repeatedly reported about the happenings at Seven Oaks. The press and the TV were the ones that made this matter public, which otherwise would have continued discreetly and unnoticed for a long time to come.
The prayer meetings are carried out continuously. Anybody may attend and meet “Toni” who avoids publicity about his person, preferring to stay aside and only wanting to show people the facts that he has witnessed and that even now are taking place, recalling a forgetful humanity dedicated to material worries, to the conversion and to a true return to God.
The daily appointment for the prayer is at 14.00 hrs. (recital of the Rosary and of the strings); the car has to be parked at the beginning of the village in the appropriate bays besides the road leading to Merano or near the parish church of Seven Oaks. One then follows the only slightly climbing path leading towards the mountain, ending at a wood after having crossed a small creek. From that point the path leads a bit higher to the village Noafer-Cologna.
The walk takes about 15 minutes and is not steep. The prayer venue is immediately on the other side of the small stream and is visibly marked by sacred images and flowers, which pilgrims spontaneously leave there.

In the last months the “phenomenon of the sun” has been frequently noticed on that spot by the clairvoyant himself and by numerous other pilgrims: the fact of being able to observe freely and without any filters the sun for a long time happens is casual. The sun itself then “moves” giving the impression of pulsating or dancing. It is a supernatural phenomenon and many pilgrims returning from Medjugorje and from other well known miraculous places have experienced it.
The most famous and well documented example of this century is the one of Fatima in 1917 (the clairvoyant Sister Lucia is still alive, she is 90 years of age and well aware!).
Attention is being drawn to the fact that the phenomenon of the sun is a gift of God which can be enjoyed until it lasts: if by staring at the sun one feels strong troubles, you should stop looking immediately in order to avoid serious and irreversible damages to the retina. This means that the phenomenon has ceased and that one should not persevere. Recently Toni has received messages from “inner voices” and felt the need to make them public, the text of which is hereunder fully mentioned. The local TV has also announced this (omitting important parts). As for all charismatic announcements, the same rules of caution and wisdom apply, keeping in mind the following:
- clairvoyants are not infallible, also when they act in good faith
- the messages should not contain theological errors or new doctrines
- the results must be positive
- the messages even if authentic are inevitably influenced by the personal feeling and sensitivity of the receiver,

Let’s think about the sun’s light that is shining regularly everywhere, but can reach us with a limited intensity because of clouds or in various colours through a stained mosaic glass. They are all the same rays of the sun which can illuminate and warm up the souls.
But please find hereunder the recent messages of Dec.1st.1997, the first ones addressed to the public which Toni received from an “interior voice” while the “phenomenon of the sun” was taking place.

For the inhabitants of Bolzano and its Province

Stop! Go back to Church to attend the Holy Mass, the Eucharistic Adoration, the prayer of the Holy Rosary, the obedience to the Holy Gospel before death caused by suicide befalls each of your families. Who believes shall see.

For the politicians of Bolzano and its Province

Do not worry more than necessary, because by the year 2050 the greater part of the inhabitants of Bolzano will have almond-shaped eyes. The one who laughs last, laughs well. For God nothing is impossible.

These are messages that do not need any comment, particularly with reference to the suicide issue, because it is well known that Alto Adige up to a short time ago was on top of the list of this sad record and still occupies the first ranks.

PICTURES
(Karl Laimer healed by the seller of frozen products (picture taken by Foto centrale Alberti)

FROM THE LOCAL PRESS

Many articles have appeared on the local press, some of which are reported hereunder. Besides imprecise and free interpretations, there are some interesting testimonials. For the healing there is not enough appropriate medical evidence, therefore the facts have to be accepted with caution.
But some precise testimonials given by well known persons, seem to be reliable.

From “Alto Adige” dated 21.08.96

“Toni” the healer?
Franz Demetz, representative of the SVP(South Tyrolese People’s Party), mayor of St.Christina and former provincial counsellor , ponders for one moment: that name rings a bell in his mind. “certainly I remember him –admits Demetz- how could I have forgotten him?”.
Is it true that he healed you?
“ For years I have suffered from severe back aches. When the weather was changing, the pains became stronger. One day, three or four years ago, Toni came by at my Hotel: because of the strong pains I felt bent in two pieces. He told me he would be able to help me. I was doubtful since he is not a physician but a frozen food merchant. I asked him what I had to do and he advised me to pray for Our Lady Mary”
To try would not cost anything. “Being a catholic, I prayed without difficulties. In the meantime Toni had placed his hands on my back just on the spot where I felt the pain and he appealed to Our Lady”.
And did you miraculously heal?
“ I did not know what happened –says Demetz- I do not know if one can talk about healing. For sure I felt an intense heat and from that moment the pain disappeared. Funny, not so?”. But did you know that Our Lady appeared to the healer at Seven Oaks?
“ I did not know it. I discovered it the other day by watching TV: they showed the place of the appearance at Seven Oaks. Then they zoomed into those two paintings of Our Lady and I remembered that Toni had brought two poster size images of the crying Lady to my wife.”.

 

“ Yes, it’s all true. Toni the salesman of frozen foodstuffs has healed me not only once, but two times: first from my back aches, the pains were so severe that medicines could not help and afterwards from heart ailments.”. Karl Laimer, the cook at the Hotel “Nalserhof” at Nalles, one day was laughing about this, but today he is convinced that the clairvoyant Toni has miraculous hands.
He, the main figure of the healing, has kept silent for twenty years, because the priests had told him to keep his mouth shut. It was too risky to tell the world that he had talked to Jesus for ten days and ten nights, to have been chosen for the New Evangelisation, to have seen Our Lady in the small woods at the top of Father Romedius street at Seven Oaks.
He tried to speak out but they thought he was insane. Unavoidable and he knows it: he can thank Prof. Basaglia who introduced the Law 180 by which mental hospitals were abolished, for not having been admitted to one of them.
“ But now –he says- I have decided to speak up and then may happen what will. It does not interest me to make publicity for myself, but I want the world to know this, although many will scoff at me. The journalists have found out where the appearances take place, therefore there is no reason for keeping quiet.”.
The clairvoyant is ready to speak at one condition: to preserve the anonymity. Many people know him, but little is known about him ; for everybody else he is Mr.Toni, 60 years of age, retired merchant of frozen products. He lives at Bolzano , but to meet him one has to go to Seven Oaks: every day of the year, between two and three in the afternoon he goes to pray to Our Lady, just there where she appeared on Sept. 27th., 1992.
“Twenty years ago – he explains - Jesus has talked to me, I have been in the Other World and found out that it is a marvellous sensation, Jesus has chosen me, who had not been to Church for 25 years, for a New Evangelisation of the world and from that day my life has radically changed: I am not interested in money, houses or cars.”.
And the healing?
“ I could mention a series of cases –says the clairvoyant – in which I have placed my hands, prayed and Jesus has done the healing.”. The miraculously healed persons belong to those ethnical groups: Italian, German and Ladin, which will certainly please the supporters who advocate living together.
“ One –he remembers- is a politician, an important person within the SVP: his name is Franz Demetz, former mayor of Santa Christina. I have known him for many years because I sued to go to his Hotel “Villa Pallua” to deliver frozen products.”.
And what was his problem?
“ He was suffering from sever back aches. One day I saw him: he was bending over because of the terrible pains. I felt very sorry for him and tried to help him. At the beginning he was doubtful and then he let me do. I placed my hands on his back and appealed to the Lord : “ I beg you to show your power and your glory. Glory be to God, to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was from the beginning now and forever, amen.”. The pain disappeared by magic.”.
Another example always at Santa Christina. The owner of a well known Hotel had such serious pains at her knees that at times she could not walk. Toni met her always for the same reasons: he used to go to her Hotel to sell frozen foodstuffs. “ I do not want that my name appears in the press – said the lady – anyhow everything is true:Toni healed me. I did not have any more problems. Besides mine, there are other cases.”.
The clairvoyant healer tells us also about that other Hotel owner of Scena who had a polyp in her throat: the doctors had told her that she had to undergo surgery. He healed her.
“ When she went to the clinic to be admitted for surgery –she tells- the physicians could not believe their eyes : the polyp had disappeared. And then there is the story of that boy of Caldaro, son of the owner of the Hotel “Zum Turm”, an unbelievable matter.”.
Was he also miraculously healed?
“ One day I went to their Hotel and the boy’s mother explained that her son had a severe headache : very acute pains. He had not slept the whole night because he had to clear the water from the cellar of the hotel and the pain had grown worse: also his forehead had swollen.
I felt very sorry for that young man: I placed my hands on his head, I appealed to the Lord and he was healed.. Also the swelling had disappeared.”.
Siegfried who had been healed admits: “ When he placed the hands on me I felt a great heat on my head and the pain that had been caused by a chronic form of sinusitis disappeared. It repeats itself once or twice a year, not more. This kind of headache never used to abandon me before.”.
One should never ask the clairvoyant how much one has to pay to get healed, he might get offended: “Obviously nothing. They do not have to thank me, but Our Lady that appeared at Seven Oaks. Also the water of the creek that flows from San Genesio is miraculous”.
Toni has no doubts: he has healed ill people that did not have any hope of survival, like that boy of Lana condemned by a brain cancer. “ The doctors – remembers the clairvoyant – had given him a three month’s time frame to live. His mother had not given up. She brought him to Seven Oaks, she moistened him with the creek’s water and we prayed together, he healed.”. Who is he, what’s his name?
“ I never ask the name and address of the persons healed by Our Lady. I only know that now the boy is doing fine and this satisfies me.”
(article by Antonella Mattioli – A.Adige 21.8.96)

 

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APPENDIX

Numerous are the locations where the appearances take place by means of which clairvoyants and charismatic persons announce new times in various parts of the world. It’s not always easy to see one’s way clear out of this maze and understand the trustworthiness and the supernatural meaning of the various messages which reach us, notwithstanding serious researches and well documented publications. Some valuable texts can be found at catholic libraries( for example the works of Maria Valtorta, distributed by the “Pauline editions”).
But the Church speaks insistently of a “New Evangelisation”, concept very dear to Pope Paul John II whose person, we should not forget, is the source of Teaching. Well, from the many statements of the Holy Father one cannot only notice an admission of the charismatic and contemporary prophetic phenomenon, but at times also a suggestive confirmation of the same.

Hereunder please find some allusive words of the Pope which seem to hint to a not so distant renewal of the world.
All the expressions that follow can be interpreted in a pure symbolical sense as general auspices due to a Pope and as such they have to be understood. Many, also men of the Church, do not expect to see great changes in the world on the occasion of the Jubilee 2000: may be a few more processions in Rome and a few tiring ceremonies in the surroundings, in reality an unstoppable general view of fading Christianity.
Others instead deeply hope that this will not be the case and that the Pope’s words –purposely concealed- are prophetic and inspired, in fact promising the reality to which they refer; that there be much more to rejoice and that humanity may really “lift its head”!

AT FATIMA, 13.5.1982

“ Ahead of us lies the danger of the apostasy to God, of the fight against God and against all that is sacred and divine. We might be approaching the times foreseen by St.Paul, the time of the antichrist which erects itself against God and against every kind of religion. But it is also the time in which the Holy Spirit, by means of Our Lady, mobilises the whole Church”.
(Reference to 2 – Tess, 2,1-8)

WITH THE SOLEMNITY OF THE ENCYCLICAL LETTERS

“ On this characteristic background of our times one has to underline “the wishes of the spirit” while preparations are under way for the great Jubilee, like for example references that foretell the arrival of a new advent at the end of which, as it happened two thousand years ago, every human being shall see the salvation in God.” ( Dominum et Vivificantem 56)

“ Peace is also the fruit of love : that intimate peace which the tired human being is longing for in his inner self ; that peace which is expected by mankind, by the human family, by the people, by nations, by continents with the feeble hope of obtaining it during the transition period from the second to the third Christian millennium.” (Dominum et Vivificantem 67)

“…..the most precious fruit… is the listening by the faithful to the appeal of Christ to work in his vineyard, to take really part in a conscientious and responsible fashion in the mission of the Church, in this wonderful and dramatic hour of its history, in face of the approaching third millennium.” (Christifideles laici 3 )

“ Mary remarkably united to Christ on His first coming, for her continued cooperation with him, will also be waiting for His second coming….She also plays that role pertaining to a mother, as agent of clemency in view of the final coming……”. (Redemptoris Mater, 41)

ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS

“ The Christian community has the duty to testify in front of the world of this wait announcing….the new arrival of the Lord, when time shall give way to eternity. Let’s live together with Mary this waiting period and let’s ask Her to direct our steps towards the Lord. Today She repeats with Her Son: “ Stand up and lift your heads, because your redemption is near!”.
(Angelus 27.11.88 – Avvenire)
“The Church whose wish is to be Mother as well, is speaking to You, Mother of Christ, Immaculate Mother, about the suffering and the hopes of mankind and of the people. From the depth of the Second Advent which is under way after the first arrival of Christ, the Church yells at you : Good natured Mother of the Saviour…help the people that are falling apart and that is yearning to resurrect!....Gate to Heaven! Be for all of us the gate to the Advent of God. The Gate of Salvation.Amen.” (Avvenire, 9.12.88)

“ In face of all the upheavals that shake here and the various continents, in the presence of the pressing rhythm of the overturning of things and values which threaten the certainty and the lives of nations, I advocate to me the hope expressed by St.Augustine, when the Vandals assaulted the city of Ippona, while a group of alarmed Christians of his church was looking for him : “ Do not be afraid, dear sons! - assured them the Bishop – this is not an old world ending, it is a new world that is beginning”. A new dawn seems to begin on the skies of history, inviting the Christians to be the light and the salt of a world that has an enormous need of Christ, Saviour of Mankind.” (Lisbon 10.5.1991 – Osservatore Romano 12.5.91)

From the “deep supernatural calls” coming from Fatima in the year 1917, “many things will change on the European and world scenes and numerous events shall take place in this century, particularly in the last years.” (Fatima, 13.5.91 – Avvenire 14.5.91)

“ A new dawn seems to appear on the sky of history, from Cova da Iria a comforting light full of hope seems to be spreading, throwing light on facts that characterise the end of this second millennium”. (Pro Deo et Fratribus. 1.93)

“ Let the faithful, let the Christian families appeal again regularly and with fervour to Her, particularly by praying the wonderful Rosary! Our Lady shall obtain from the Lord the grace of a new spring for the Church while nearing the third millennium of the Christian era”.
(Angelus 6.11.88 – Avvenire)

While talking to a group of air force pilots on the 28.8.88 and thanking them for their cooperation during the apostolic trips around the world, he said:

“ The prophecy of Jesus which you can read on Chapter 24 of St. Mathews comes true: - This Gospel of the Kingdom shall be announced to the whole world and in testimony thereof to all mankind, [ and then the end shall come]”.
The Pope omitted the words within brackets.
(from “LaTraccia” ; Gospel of Matheus 24,14)

HOMILY IN CANADA AT EDMONTON in front of thousands of persons.

“ The peace of God be with us, here in Canada and everywhere. May justice and peace kiss one another once more at the end of the second millennium, which prepares us for the coming of Christ, in glory. Amen”. (Osservatore Romano N.216.19.9.84)

WORLD DAY OF YOUTH – DENVER Aug.15th., 1993

“ [our pilgrimage]….must continue like a New Advent, a moment of hope and of wait, till the return of the Lord in glory.”…
“ The world approaching the new millennium, for which the whole Church is getting ready, resembles a field ready to be reaped.”…
“ Maranatha. Here from the Cherry Creek State Park of Denver, at this meeting of young people from all the corners of the world, we all shout: Maranatha! “Come Lord Jesus”. “
(English text on Osservatore Romano,n.189, Aug.19th, 1993)

 

GETTING READY FOR THE GREAT JUBILAEUM OF THE THIRD MILLENIUM

“ We cannot appear before Christ, Lord of History, so divided as we unfortunately find ourselves in the course of the second millennium”. (Avvenire 14.6.94)

“The Christians are called upon to prepare themselves for the Great Jubilee of the third millennium, renewing the hope for the final arrival of God’s kingdom and to prepare it day after day in their innermost within the Christian community to which they belong, in the social texture in which they find themselves and also in the history of the world as well.” (Tertio millennio adveniente, 46)

FROM HIS BOOK OF INTERVIEWS: “ To cross the barriers of hope” (34)

“ Now came May 13th. 1981. When I was wounded by the bullet of an attacker at St.Peter’s square, I did not pay attention to the fact that on that day it was the anniversary of Mary’s (Our Lady’s) appearance to those three children at Fatima, Portugal, addressing them with those words that by the end of the century would have almost fulfilled themselves.”

PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF FATIMA

Mother of the Saviour!....You stood next to the cross of Your Son, which is also the cross of the whole history of mankind and of our century as well.. You have remained and shall continue to stay turning Your eyes upon the hearts of these sons and daughters who already belong to the third millennium. You have stayed and continue to stay watching with infinite attentions of Mother and defending with your powerful intercession, the dawn of the Light of Christ within all people and nations. (cit.by H.E. Pavol Hnlica – “Pro Deo et Fratribus” Oct.1996)

IN THE 50TH. ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF WORLD WAR II

How can one accomplish that the people of Europe and of the whole world live in peace by the end of the twentieth century and build a peace link for the centuries and generations of the third millennium? What can be done to extinguish the hotbeds of wars going unfortunately on in the Balkans, Caucasus, Rwanda and in other spots of the earth? Christ answers with today’s words of the Gospel:
….” When the Spirit of Truth shall come, he will guide you to the whole Truth, because he shall not talk about himself, but will disclose whatever he has heard and shall announce the future”.
(Gv 16,13)

AT ST.PETER’S ON THE OCCASION OF THE FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (8.12.97)

Mankind which is preparing itself for the third millennium finds in the Immaculate the example of wait and hope. She teaches us to avoid fatalism and passive resignation, as well as every temptation of the millennium. She teaches us to look at the future knowing that God comes towards us: we are called to get ready for this meeting by prayer and vigilant wait.

FROM THE PRAYER OF THE HOLY FATHER FOR THE SECOND YEAR OF PREPAREDNESS OF THE GREAT JUBILEE 2000

Come creative Spirit, secret maker of the Kingdom, with the power of your holy presents, guide the Church to cross with courage the threshold of the new millennium and to bring to the future generations the light of the Word of Salvation. Spirit of Holiness, divine puff that moves the universe, come and give the earth a new look……

FROM THE CATECHESIS FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE GREAT JUBILEE (Rome,10.12.97)

“ If in Christ time is raised to a higher standard, gaining thus access to eternity, this implies that also the impending millennium must not simply be considered as a successive step in the course of time, but as a milestone on the road of humanity towards its final goal. The year 2000 is not only the door of another millennium.