Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa

✶May 28, 1931

†August 15, 2024

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About their life

Our Lady of Akita is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with the Marian apparitions reported in 1973 by Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa in the remote area of Yuzawadai, an outskirt of Akita, Japan. The messages emphasize prayer and penance in combination with cryptic prophecies warning of sacerdotal persecution and heresy within the Catholic Church. A wooden statue representing the apparitions is venerated by the Japanese faithful and other Catholics. In December 1973, a Japanese television station videotaped tears coming from the statue's eyes.

Japanese nun who received apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Akita in 1973

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Biography from the article Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.