Maria Esperanza

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• Born on the Feast Day of Saint Cecilia
• Her name means "Mary Hope"
• She was a Venezuelan Mystic
• Gifts of healing, prophesy, bilocation, levitation, reading of souls
• When she was a little girl she had a vision of St. Therese the Little Flower and was thrown a rose.
• October 3, 1955 she had a vision of St. Therese again at Mass and was thrown a rose but when she caught it she received the stigmata
• The stigmata would bleed on "Good Fridays"
• On March 25, 1976 was the first public vision of "Our Lady" to Maria
• March 25 is also the Feast of the Annunciation
• On March 25, 1984 the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Maria and 150 other people in Betania, Venezuela
• Our Lady of Betania is also known as the Reconciler of People and Nations
• Nov. 21, 1987 the local bishop approved the apparition's and it is the 4th approved apparition site of the 20th Century
• Received the first prophesy of 9/11 on December 9, 1992 and the final 9/11 prophesy three weeks before on August 25, 2001
• On 16 different occasions, a rose spontaneously appeared from Maria's chest
• She became a close friend of St. Padre Pio and he appeared to her on his death on September 23, 1968
• St. Pio informed her that she would continue his ministry
• Maria Esperanza is in the first stage of Sainthood also known as a Servant of God