Word: miracolo
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...flocked to the shrine of the little Madonna, now surrounded by a display of crutches and braces presumably thrown away by the cured. All day long Masses were being said, and assisting the local priests was Antonietta's husband Angelo. While the church has not formally accredited the miracolo, Pope Pius XII, in a message to Sicilians, has referred to the weeping Madonna: "So ardent are the people of Sicily in their devotion to Mary that who would marvel if she had chosen the illustrious city [of Syracuse] to give a sign of her grace...
...gills . . ." Back in the sweating, shoving crowd a man waved a ragged arm, shouted: "Come on, yellow face, come on, lemon face!" At 9:28 the dark substance in one of the slowly turning vials began to slide along the glass, then dissolved and spurted about the container. "Miracolo! Miracolo!" cried a man in the crowd...
After an hour of prayers the people beheld the dark mass grow soft, turn red, increase in volume, bubble into a liquid. "Il miracolo e fatto!" cried the officiant. ''The miracle is made!" The choir sang a Te Deum. The worshippers scrambled up to the altar rail to kiss the reliquary. Outside sounded a nine-gun salute...