Vatican City (EFE)
The objective of this new body is to “analyze and interpret the various cases of ‘mariofanías’ such as apparitions, lacrimations, internal locutions, stigmata and other mystical phenomena in progress or already occurred on the authenticity of which the ecclesiastical authorities have not yet ruled on,” according to the official portal “Vatican News”.
Visions of Maria Giuseppa Scarpulla in Trevignano
The president of PAMI, Stefano Cecchin, explained that the entity will work to correctly verify and disseminate these events because, he stressed, it is “important to clarify them.”
This is because “often supposed messages generate confusion, spread anxious apocalyptic scenarios or even accusations against the Pope and the Church,” he said.
Although the information in “Vatican News” does not allude to any specific case, the Observatory was born in the midst of an intense debate about the alleged visions of Maria Giuseppa Scarpulla in Trevignano, a small town in the province of Rome.
The 53-year-old woman, known as Gisella Cardia, says that on the third day of each month she receives messages from the Virgin and that a statue she bought after a visit to the Bosnian sanctuary of Medjugorje cries tears of water and blood.
The phenomena carried out by the supposed psychic, with a criminal record for bankruptcy, have been happening since 2016 and she has managed to create a kind of cult that every 3 days brings together numerous faithful in Trevignano to attend the supposed miracles.
Multiply the size of a pizza or a plate of gnocchi
The Civitavecchia Prosecutor’s Office (center) investigates it after some people have reported having been scammed.
In an interview, Scarpulla went so far as to affirm that he had even managed to multiply the size of a pizza or a plate of gnocchi to feed a large number of guests in his own home.
“A friend brought my husband and me a very small tray of pizza, enough for us or at most for two other people, but at home we were twenty, or twenty-five, and it was not only enough for all of us to eat, but also leftovers. and we give it away”, he said in an interview on the YouTube channel of a collaborator.
Meetings with Scarpulla are suspended “momentarily”
The Diocese of Civita Castellana, with jurisdiction over the Trevignano area, has also created a commission by order of Bishop Marco Salvi, although according to some media it will soon declare that “there is nothing supernatural” in these events.
The presumed seer and her acolytes have a website where each month they publish the alleged messages from the Virgin together with indications and bank coordinates to make donations.
In addition, it is warned that the meetings with Scarpulla “are temporarily suspended” at a date yet to be specified.