Part 1 Saint Veronica 2Giuliani7 URGATORY 1 6 6 0 - 1 7 P aint Veronica Giuliani was born at me, and told me: Do you know me? I Mercatello sul Maturo near Urbino in feared and trembled; but I took courage 1660. In 1677 she entered among the and said: I do not know you. It seems that SCapuchin Poor Clares of Città di Castello. you are Fr. Vitale, but I don’t know whether She became abbess of the community it’s true. He answered: I am; and took me by but had to face a great number of trials an arm. At that time I felt a great pain as for her mystic experiences. She had the if my arm was being cut; and I also felt so stigmata and a wound on the heart that much ice cold, that it seemed unbearable. was verified by doctors at her death. She And I thought I heard him saying: Now guided the community on the way of is my time of need; and I recognized very perfection and was a model for all the well that it was Fr. Vitale. But he had sisters. She had several times the vision of a definite clear and joyful voice, not like Purgatory and many souls were liberated that morning that I heard it after through her prayer. She died on Good Communion. Immediately he squeezed Friday of 1727, after thirty-three days my arm with his hand and said: May the of sickness. She was canonized in 1829. agreements be maintained. At this point I In obedience, she wrote her mystical awakened from sleep and, while opening experiences in a Diary. my eyes, I saw something like a shadow Here we report two of these mystic departing the cell. On my arm remained experiences taken from her Diary. The a great pain; and warmth did not return first is of September 10, 1700: “A few until late evening. All day I was as if numb.” days after the death of Fr. Vitale, one morning, after receiving Communion, The other story is of August 15, suddenly I thought I saw an arm with the 1701: “It seemed to me that the Eternal sleeve of a Franciscan Friar there before Judge gave me His blessing with that me and I heard a voice saying to me: cross he was holding in His Hand; and Help! Help! Really it seemed to me the I learned that, for the merits of His Most voice of Fr. Vitale when he was alive, Holy Passion and for the intercession of and it immediately disappeared. I did not the Blessed Virgin, I had obtained grace pay much attention; I only kept a definite from Him. He confirmed me as mediator concern to do some good for this soul. between Him and sinners, and also “A little later, one night in a dream, mediator and helper for the poor souls of I thought I saw two souls of Purgatory. Purgatory. These were the two offices One seemed to me the Sister who died that I had to exercise for all the remainder a short time ago, and the other one I of my life; and I had the impression that didn’t recognize. The soul approached it will be short.” © Associazione Carlo Acutis.