Sister Agnes Sasagawa, the Visionary from Akita, Japan, Has Died

 

According to several reports, the alleged visionary Sister Agnes Sasagawa of Akita, Japan, died on the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady at the age of 93.

Her visions of Our Lady took place in 1973.

Sister Agnes Sasagawa, born in 1931, was a catechist in a church in Kyushu for many years, before she became deaf in 1973. The disability led her to a convent in Akita, northern Japan, to the Congregation of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. She experienced a healing in 1982 when her deafness was miraculously cured.

She received three main messages announcing that God was preparing a terrible chastisement for humanity ("fire will fall from heaven and a large part of humanity will die").

And: "Satan will infiltrate the Church. Bishops will oppose other bishops, cardinals will rise up against other cardinals, priests who venerate Mary will be persecuted by their brethren. Altars and churches will be looted and churches will be filled with worldly compromises. Many priests will give up their priesthood at the temptation of Satan."

The wooden statue of Our Lady of Akita is said to have wept more than 100 times by 1981, seen by more than 500 witnesses, both Catholic and pagan. The statue also exhaled good odors on several occasions. The weeping statue of the Virgin Mary was broadcast on Japanese state television.

After an 11-year investigation, Bishop John Shorjiro Ito of Nilgata, Japan (1909-1993) approved the miracles and messages in 1984.

In 1990, Archbishop Peter Shirayagani (1928-2009) and the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan dismissed the message of the apparition.

He said that the events could be considered as private revelations, but did not have the status of an approved apparitions like Lourdes or Fatima.

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