I just returned from a visit to Sunrise, Florida where my wife and I witnessed some apparently miraculous manifestations. At St. Bernard's Catholic Church, a statue of the Blessed Mother, called Rosa Mystica, is exuding fragrant oil.
The statue is based on witness descriptions of The Virgin Mary in apparitions that started in 1947 and later picked up again, two decades later. The apparitions were in Italy, first at Montichiari and later at Fontonelle. The beautiful woman in the apparitions said she is "the Mother of Jesus and the mother of all of you."
On her chest, were three roses; white, red and yellow. She said that the white rose represents prayer, the red sacrifice, and the yellow penance or conversion. Today, a surprising number of Rosa Mystica statues and pictures are exhibiting miraculous phenomena. Some exude oil, others weep blood. (Images and videos from around the world can easily be found on the Internet.) But the one in Sunrise Florida has another unusual twist. It exudes pearls. When we were there, seven pearls rested in the bowl of oil at her feet. It seems God never tires of surprising us.
