'My daughter, my novice, you have obeyed me well in abandoning all to follow me. It continued to weep at intervals for the next 6 years and eight months.
Two years later on January 4, 1975, the statue of the Blessed Virgin began to weep. On October 13, she received a final third message. On September 29, the day the wound on the statue disappeared, the sisters noticed the statue had now begun to 'sweat', especially on the forehead and neck. The wound in the statue's hand remained until September 29, when it disappeared. On four occasions, this act of blood flow repeated itself. On the same day, a few of the sisters noticed drops of blood flowing from the statue's right hand. The statue was carved from a single block of wood from a Katsura tree and is three feet tall. Agnes heard a voice coming from the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the chapel where she was praying. It bled profusely and caused her much pain.
On June 28, 1973, a cross-shaped wound appeared on the inside left hand of Sr. The same thing happened on each of the two days that followed. Agnes saw brilliant mysterious rays emanate suddenly from the tabernacle. The extraordinary events began on June 12, 1973, when Sr. The Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Akita, Japan,