She traveled to Lisbon from Madrid with a group from Opus Dei. During the days prior, relatives and acquaintances of the young woman organized a novena to pray to Our Lady of the Snows, whose feast day is commemorated Aug. With the simplicity of a year-old girl and an expression full of light and hope, Jimena remembered in detail what she felt on that day last year when she was cured.
I had been shaking with nervousness, and when we got down on our knees after taking Communion, I closed my eyes, and I felt a lot of peace, and then I stopped shaking. And then I opened them, I dried my tears, and I could see the altar, the tabernacle perfectly She also recalled recognizing her friends, who began to celebrate with her over what had happened. Her father recalled that just prior to the healing, Jimena was going to undergo emergency surgery in the operating room.
So, you change the way you pray. So there was that possibility, but of course, at 16 years of age and so suddenly there are no previous cases β there are none. They did all the tests again and the condition was completely gone. The Holy Father did not take long to respond and encouraged her and her family to make a pilgrimage to the Basilica of St.
Mary Major, also known as St. Mary of the Snows, one of the most important basilicas in Rome dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows and for which the pontiff has a special love. What Pope Francis did not know is that providentially the family had already planned β a year ago β a trip to Rome to spend the end of the year there. During their trip to the Eternal City, which became a pilgrimage in gratitude to the Virgin, the family had a private meeting with the Holy Father and also participated in the Mass he offered on Jan.
Martha House with his typical closeness and familiarity. I see her as the mother that she is and that she appears, not physically, but she has little signs or things in which she shows us all that she is already here. But the protagonist in the end is the Virgin. But we do it anonymously, because I think it would be bad for people to think that Jimena has power. They are two very different things, and mixing them is a mistake. I believe that one of the beautiful things, which is also a grace of the Virgin, is being able to share her experience in personal and in-person testimonies so that other people come closer to the Lord.
