Sister Agnes Sasagawa, seer of Akita, dead at 93
August 22, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Sister Agnes Sasagawa, whose reports of apparitions by the Virgin Mary gave rise to devotion to Our Lady of Akita, died on August 15—the feast of the Assumption—at the age of 93, after a lengthy illness.
Beginning in June 1973, Sister Agnes, a member of the Handmaids of the Eucharist, began reporting visions, in which the Blessed Virgin’s message was strikingly similar to the message of Fatima, with its call to repentance and praying the Rosary. A wooden statue associated with these visions began to shed tears and blood; these phenomena were witnessed by hundreds of people, and analysis confirmed the appearance of human blood.
In 1984 the Bishop of Niigata authorized the veneration of Our Lady of Akita, recognizing “the supernatural character of a series of mysterious events concerning the statue,” and saying that the messages contained “nothing contrary to Catholic doctrine or morals.”
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