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announced a Marian apparition has locked on Saturday afternoon, hundreds of believers and onlookers to Bad St. Leonhard in the Carinthian Lavanttal. The self-determined Italian seer Salvatore Caputa appeared the Mother of God, the most others have waited in vain.
About 400 onlookers, devout or just curious, to pave the way to the scene. Past the church, through a park, on the Schlossberg with the remains of ancient watchtowers, a specially built wooden cross and a statue of Mary. Only a few meters away, a mini golf course, which today does not draw the interest of excursionists up. The clientele is mixed, from young people who smile at the predicted phenomenon rather to older believers and representatives of the New Protestant Church. Somewhat surprisingly lacks the expected sales levels "The look you have in any case" with rosaries, candles and holy water.
says an elderly man, "that's the meaning of Catholic faith, not aliens appear here, yes." No trace of nervousness in his wife: "We will surprise you over, but it would be nice to see Mary." What would she say to Mary? "Greetings you, Mary. ! Nice that you came "Half an hour before the scheduled appearance, the bulk of the audience - including many Italians - taken on wooden benches in order to jointly to sing and pray the rosary. The "seer" Salvatore Caputa - a former police officer - to appear, the Mother of God since 1986 regularly to make the illusion that salvation Maria spreads
A bizarre image -. At 16.30 clock kneels Caputa Finally, in the statue down, pray, fall into a trance and takes apparently contacted the Virgin Mary. After a few minutes, the nightmare is over, most have been waiting in vain for an apparition of the Virgin Mary. "Everything just quackery," "I felt nothing," "these are just his imagination," tell some of the participants. The speaker, a priest from Burgenland, celebrating the exhibition explains, however: ". We want to thank the heavens that we were honored to be able to attend at the apparition of the Virgin" Other participants report that they perceived the scent of roses to have , also on an exchange is the question. "You can feel and hear nothing, you just pray," a 40-year-old woman who is still immersed in prayer whispered. The 70-year-old man next to her says reverently of Jesus, he is "already appeared four times" and his life in the "seventh incarnation.
The Roman Catholic Church recognizes the supposedly visionary skills Caputas not. "We distance ourselves from such events," said Matthias Kapeller, spokesman for the Diocese of Gurk, "this private revelations to be disclosed." The South Tyrolean Diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone had an announced appearance Caputas last year even prohibited in other communities, he was charged with curfew.
responsible for tourism council Dieter Dohr (BZÖ) takes stock of the satisfactory performance by the Italian seer "has cost us the event almost anything, the advertising value for our little city was enormous. "Caputa predicted for October again a Marian apparition in Bad St. Leonhard, the path to a second Lourdes is probably still far away.
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