Padre Catanoso founded the order of "Veroniche del Volto Santo" from an intuition he had working in Pentedattilo at the beginning of the last century.
Gesù ha bisogno di molte Veroniche per i peccati di bestemmia e di sacrilegio e di molti Cirenei per la Croce sempre più pesante dei più poveri senza conforto e senza aiuto
Jesus needs many Veronicas for the sin of blasphemy and sacrilege and many Cyreneans for the Cross, every day heavier, of poor people without relief from their sufferings nor help.
and again
...Ma se vogliamo adorare il Volto reale di Gesù, non l'immagine sola, questo Volto noi lo troviamo nella divina Eucaristia, ove col Corpo e Sangue di Gesù Cristo si nasconde sotto il bianco velo dell'ostia il Volto di Nostro Signore.
However, if we want to worship the real appearance of Jesus, His face we find in the Eucharist, where with the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the Face of Our Lord is hidden under the white veil of the Host.
He was a point of reference to the Diocese of Reggio Calabria for several decades.
Thank God for such a luminous gift.
berenike said...
NB: Lwow was then part of Poland. Have you checked whether these guys were Ukrainian or Polish?
Galilei said...
Hello Berenike, welcome to my humble cloister :-).
No, I have not checked whether Lwow was Polish at the time. Anyway I did not mean to boast Calabria for the holiness of Padre Catanoso, simply because holiness means closeness to the reality of the Lord, so far from ours. Cheers.
