«The family in which I was born and raised was a family of peasants, so I also started working the earth like my parents and grazing the flock. I attended school until the second average, then I had to leave to help my family in the work of the fields. On the evening, while I returned home after a long day of hard work in the fields, near the rock suddenly I was dazzled by a great light and I saw a young girl of rare beauty, in the attitude of prayer on the top of it. I was afraid and I was about to escape. At that precise moment the girl moved and made me sign with her hand not to escape by saying to me: not being afraid, I come from paradise, I am the Immaculate Virgin, the mother of the son of God; I came to ask you to build a chapel here in my honor ».
Thus began, last Sunday, the story of Brother Cosimo, the Placanichese mystical protagonist of the extraordinary spiritual experience lived on 11 May 1968 in the solitary village of S. Domenica who transformed a young farmer into a young man consumed by the love of God and living icon of a Gospel.
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