In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
For Blessed Edvige Carboni, the Mass, daily Communion and the visit to the
Blessed Sacrament were for many years her indispensable spiritual food. But also
the faithful fulfillment of her domestic chores, taking care of her mother,
her grandmother, and all her relatives from a young age.
She was a good housekeeper. She was never idle and, while she was working, she was in prayer.
Sometimes her guardian angel did the housework for her and, sometimes, Jesus Himself. Her
devotion to the Virgin Mary came from a very young age, when she prayed before her image,
and she used to give her the baby Jesus to take Him in her arms. May God enlighten us to
follow in her footsteps and to be like her, good perfume of Christ for our brothers and sisters.
Blessed Edvige Carboni tells us: When I was already a big girl, from seven to nine years old,
already attending school, I saw that my mother was in poor health and had liver problems.
I, to help her and please her, swept, dusted and did things appropriate to my age.
Many times my poor mother sent me to do the shopping late and I was afraid to walk, especially
in the lonely streets. I was little, but I obeyed my mother and was ready to obey my parents.
I walked fearfully and, at one point, I saw my guardian angel
who lovingly told me: "Don't be afraid, I'm with you and I'll keep you good company."
And my guardian angel exhorted me to always be good to my neighbor.
I went into the store to buy and he stayed outside. Later, he again accompanied me
to the door of my house and disappeared, leaving me all happy with his good company.
Blessed Edvige tells us on May 25th, 1941: While praying before the Blessed Sacrament, I was in
ecstasy and saw Jesus on the cross bleeding from each of the wounds. The blood fell to the
ground. I saw angels with golden chalices that brought them close to the wounds. In a moment,
the chalices were filled but some of the blood fell to the ground. Jesus wept. I said to Him:
"Why are You crying?" He replied: "Daughter, I cry because so much blood that I shed in the
Passion is wasted without bearing any fruit."
After Communion, I have seen three crosses.
Jesus was on the middle one, the other two were empty. Then Saint John Bosco popularly known as
Don Bosco approached me and told me: “Daughter, Jesus has commissioned me to look for victim souls
to make amends for so many offenses that He continually receives, especially for immodest
fashions and so that peace may be achieved among nations. Daughter, after so much searching,
I found you and Grace. These two empty crosses will do, one for you and one for Grace."
Grace was one of Blessed Edvige's great friends, a little older than her, with a pure and beautiful
soul who, at 33 years of age, consecrated herself totally to Jesus, offering herself as a victim
to achieve peace in the Second World War.
Jesus loved Blessed Edvige Carboni so much that
in order for her to resemble Him, He will give her His stigmata or sores on His feet, hands and side.
She too will suffer the crown of thorns. Blessed Edvige tells us: One night, while I was praying,
an angel appeared to me with a crown in his hand.
He put it on my head and I felt a strong pain,
because it nailed my whole head so that for several days I couldn't open one eye, because
it was red and inside it seemed that there was a thorn. Another day, an angel pierced her heart
like other great mystics, a phenomenon that some call transverberation. Blessed Edvige tells us:
I was praying to the good Jesus and, suddenly, an angel appeared to me and hurt my heart. I
feel that wound until now. It is a wound that makes me burn with love for Jesus.
But Jesus asked her to offer herself as a victim in a special way for the communists.
Blessed Edvige says: I dreamed that the Blessed Virgin told me: "My daughter, promise me to suffer
all your tribulations, contempt, abandonment and suffering for the conversion of the communists."
I told her: Immaculate, I and Paulina will console you and do penance to console your maternal heart
and we will not stop praying until all the communists have converted to your Immaculate Heart
and to the Divine Heart of Jesus.
In December 1944 Blessed Edvige says:
On Thursday afternoon I dreamed that I was in the Vatican church. There were a lot of people.
Many were foreigners from many nations. Suddenly, the Holy Father appeared on
the balcony and began to speak. He said: "My children, in these sad moments in which we live,
we need to do penance to appease the anger of God, gravely indignant at the enormous sins of men."
As soon as he finished speaking, many men and women threw stones at the Pope,
and caused various injuries. Seeing him bloodied, some laughed. He had to retreat from the balcony.
An angel went down to Saint Peter's Square and said: "The world is falling into ruin,
they do not want to listen to the words of the Vicar of Christ". I asked him: who are you?
I am the angel of Rome and I live in the Vatican.
Blessed Edvige loved the Pope, the bishops and
priests very much, and she prayed a lot for them.
During Paulina's absence for reasons of studying,
Blessed Edvige Carboni frequently asked her friend to accompany her at night. One night she woke up
and saw Blessed Edvige, kneeling, praying in front of a crucifix, being in ecstasy. The room was
illuminated by a light so powerful that it blinded her eyes. Also another witness, as a child,
saw that the Servant of God prayed in the midst of a vivid light in which some figures moved:
angels, saints and the Virgin in the middle. When she saw that wonderful sight, she cried out and
the vision of her disappeared. Blessed Edvige came to her senses from ecstasy, saw the girl standing
by the door and said to her: “My girl, why did you get up? What have you seen? You must promise me
that you will not tell anyone what you have seen tonight.” The girl couldn't keep her promise.
The guardian angel was for her, as for all the saints, her companion and faithful friend who
always helped her in all her needs. Paulina says: According to what my sister told me,
she took a vow of virginity at the age of five, advised by her guardian angel.
The Vicar of Pozzomaggiore declared in 1952: I can say that her confessor
considered that they were graces of God, certain answers to some questions that Blessed Edvige,
without having studied, could not give without the help of her guardian angel.
Sister Azzena stated: My uncle made me read some letters that seemed to have been written
by educated people, while Blessed Edvige had no education. These letters were dictated to her by
her guardian angel. Some were written in Latin, a language that Blessed Edvige did not know.
My uncle told me that one day the devil hit Blessed Edvige on the hand and the blood that
came out of the wound spread through the paper, forming a beautiful carnation that I myself
have seen with my own eyes. My uncle also told me that one day Blessed Edvige was in ecstasy
in the church from morning until noon. When he got up, he went to his house and, after a while,
he received a plate of steaming macaroni. The uncle, out of curiosity, immediately went to her
house to see who prepared it. In her house there was only her father and he told him that it was
her. But it has been known that her guardian angel helped her in the most urgent household chores.
Another witness assures that Blessed Edvige saw her guardian angel who made
up Paulina's bed. Paulina told her that she shouldn't get tired when she was sick,
but she told her that she hadn't done anything, because her guardian angel did everything.
The spiritual director of Blessed Edvige declared: The guardian angel
was by her side and also helped her with the housework. In a humanly impossible time,
her angel worked and had the clothes ready that she had to wash.
Jesus Himself also washed her clothes. A witness says: When I couldn't wash her clothes because
of my bad bones, Blessed Edvige Carboni told me that Jesus Himself had washed and dried them.
One day, Paulina and I asked her how Jesus did the laundry. She replied that Jesus pretended to wash,
but without touching the clothes. He commanded and the clothes became white and clean.
According to Paulina, Blessed Edvige talked a lot about the guardian angel who recommended
her to be good and suffer with resignation.
Another day there was an unknown angel. Blessed
Edvige says: I was sick and my sister had gone to school. I was alone with a fever when I saw a boy
dressed in pink with blond hair and blue eyes. I looked at him and he made my sister's bed,
cleaned the room, and then he came up to me and said, "Always be good," and he disappeared.
On August 8th, 1941 Blessed Edvige says: This morning, after Communion, Jesus appeared to me.
He told me: “Offer those sufferings for the peace of the nations.
Haven't you offered yourself as a victim? Repeat with your guardian angel
the offering that My Mother has taught you." And I with my angel renewed my offer as a victim.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.