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THE MIRACULOUS PICTURE OF

OUR LADY OF CONFIDENCE

Our Lady made a great promise concern­ing this picture to Sister Clare Isabella Fornari, a Poor Clare of Tadi, Italy, nearly two hundred years ago. Sister Clare Isabella (1697-1744), whose beatification process is under way, had always a very tender devo­tion to this image of Our Lady of Confidence. In her beatification process are found these words: "The Divine Lady has deigned to grant from her Divine Son a general pardon for his sins to every soul who shall present himself before this image with confidence, and express a true contrition for them. And even more—this Divine Lady, with the love of a true mother, has been pleased to assure me that to every soul who will look intently at this her image she will grant a particular tenderness and devotion to herself." After the death of Sister Clare Isabella this picture which she loved so much vas held in great veneration in the chapel of the Poor Clares in Tadi, and many cures were granted through it. The devotion spread throughout Italy, and copies of the picture are still venerated in various places. The most famous of these copies is the one in the

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The devotion is now spreading through our own country with similar remarkable results. In 1941, a Dominican Sister in Michigan was dying of pneumonia. She was unconscious and had a temperature of 107. The doctors saw no possibility of recovery, and gave her only a few hours to live. The Sisters at her bedside promised to spread the devotion to Our Lady of Confidence. No sooner was the promise made than Sister opened her eyes and recognized those present. From then on her improvement was constant until her recovery was complete.

" My Mother, My Confidence "—

the only prayer the Sisters used in obtaining this cure. Similar cures have been granted in Chicago, Omaha, St. Louis and elsewhere in the past year or so. Through veneration of this picture, Our Lady of Confidence has brought about the conversion of several sinners. The persons in question were asked to carry a copy of the picture with them. They did so, and in a short time received the grace of conversion. 

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Nihil Obstat:

S.   J.   SlERAKOWSKI,

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t joseph A. burke,