The venerable servant of God, Maria Angelica Alvarez Icaza ,a Visitation Nun, could be the first Mexican mystic inscribed in the book of the saints , but we are still in the process of canonization and are required to have the first miracle for her to be declared Blessed and then canonized as a saint. .Favors attributed to her intercession , as well as her popularity are growing.
According to the proponent of the cause , Father Pedro Fernández Rodríguez the main difficulty of the process , and at the same time its greatest asset , is precisely that it is a mystical cause.
In an interview he said that everyone who has been recognized as mystics of the Catholic Church have gone through rigorous analysis.
” The mystical life of a person is measured by the mystical graces received , knowing that the summit is the spiritual marriage , which is preceded by other graces and fruits ..”
Great teachers in the mystical life are St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Jesus. ” Note that we are talking about spiritual realities , of the soul, not the body. And all this is what God does in the soul . ”
Father Pedro, who also leads the cause of Luis María Martínez , Archbishop primate of Mexico and which process is associated with Mother Mary Angelica and was her spiritual director, explained that in the mystical life of Mexican religious of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary were many writings reflected in her diary.
It should be noted that the human being is composed of body and soul, and some mystics as Mother Mary Angelica bodily revived the passion of Christ or St. Pio of Pietrelcina (1887-1968) who had the stigmata for 50 years.
What they experience is an intimate love with Jesus , spiritually speaking ; are special graces received from God.
“We know that God bestows these graces for His glory , for the good of the person who receives it and for their sanctification and for the good of the whole Church and of all men ,” said the Dominican priest .
One of the phenomena that have influenced the process of canonization of Mother Mary Angelica is in the exhumation of her remains on May 8, 1985 The sternum (the bone in front of the heart) was found, with a hole that has no scientific explanation as it would have been impossible to happen and is not congenital .
” The grace of the physical injury of the heart of Mother Mary Angelica, is found with transfixion of his sternum bone … a round about 5 mm diameter hole , perfectly achieved , whose origin has no anatomical explanation … ”
Meanwhile, Mother Maria Marta , Superior of the Monastery of the Visitation in the city of Mexico , where Mother Mary Angelica was and who had the opportunity to live with her, said that the sternum is kept as a relic.
Subsequently, three teams of doctors studied the case and the three agreed that lived miracle because it is impossible to have survived this wound in the heart .
Although there has not yet been any recognized miracle attributed to Mother Icaza ; the proponent of the cause stated that ” we have found many favors she made to many people who have turned to God for help through her intercession ,” so he invited the faithful to come to her as intercessor.
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