The reading
How it began
On 12 April 1947 Bruno is in the eucalyptus grove where St. Paul is said to have been beheaded. His children are in a cave, calling “beautiful lady.” He cannot move. A woman in a green mantle over white calls him to the Catholic faith he had hated, to the wounds of her Son, to conversion. He goes to a priest that day.
The day itself
Pius XII is informed. The grotto becomes a place of prayer. The Vicariate of Rome has allowed the cult of Our Lady of Revelation without a full supernatural declaration of the old type. Popes have sent flowers. Bruno lived as a convert until 2001.
Reading
How to read Our Lady of Revelation
The convert is the miracle. Mary meets a man who had gone to the grove to unmake her, which is a kind of humour the Gospel already knew on the Damascus road.
Pray this
Prayers that sit with the story
Church status
How this sign has been received
Locally approved
The diocese of Rome permits the shrine and the title. It has not issued a Lourdes-style decree. Status: locally received, open in the strict canonical sense, alive as a Roman devotion.
Sources
- Sanctuary of Our Lady of Revelation, Tre Fontane
- Vicariate of Rome, shrine directory
For the classroom
Our Lady of Revelation (1947, Tre Fontane, Rome). Grade in this encyclopedia: Locally approved. A Protestant, anti-Catholic tram driver, Bruno Cornacchiola, takes his children to a grove to prepare a speech against Mary. She comes. He converts. The grotto at the Three Fountains is a Roman pilgrimage with papal visits and a cautious local reception.
