It is an apparition wich happened in Rome in 1947 to a father and his three children at a place called "The three fountains.

A clear and special coincidence: the date: the lighth of Easter date of the novena of Mercy- when Bruno Cornacchiola leaves home with his children Isola, Carlo and Gianfranco aged 10, 7 and 4 to reach Ostia Lido.

But a slight hitch makes him change route: the new destination is now, Three Fountains: There the children can play freely and Bruno, absorbed in the shade of the eucalypt can look over the dogma and faith thruth to be opposed in the non-catholic meetings he attends.

Suddenly he is asked by the children to look for the ball which, fell in to the busches, can't be found. He begins the search for it but when he can't 'hear his little Gianfranco any longer he goes back and, to his great surprise, sights the child knelt in front of the red tufa cave saying:" Beautiful Lady ! Beautiful Lady !

But first he is not allowed to see that shining "thing" that will be then recognised as the Modher of God. For him at the moment, only amazament, incredulity and even fear of being ensnared in some witchcraft together with the children who now are, the three of them, silent and with dilated pupils in estatic contemplation of the same point at the and of the cave.

When he desperatily and hopelessly exclams :" Oh Lord save us"!Bruno himself is allowed to "see". He reports:" As soon as I pronounced"Lord, save us"I immediately watched two hands, most candid and trasparent, moving towards me. I then felt these two hands, as light as a bird's feather brush my eyes and drop from them something like a veil that first blinded me. My pupils were then permeated by such a gleam that for some instant every thing disappeared in front of me, sons and cave and I felt so light, ethereal that I thought my spirit had fled from the body. In that enchanted rapture I didn't even hear my children exclaim the usual expression". Beautiful Lady, Beautiful Lady. When I recovered my sight , after that moment of blindness, in the most luminous point of the cave, surrounded by a halo of golden light,very dazzling ,I notized oh-what a wonder and indescribable emotion for our miserable human nature! I noticed the figure of a heavently woman , whose features and celestial beauty are still so deeply stamped on my pupils but can't be depicted in human words.

This Heavenly Woman had got blak eyes, gathered on her head and a bit protruding from the grass-green mantle that went down from the head to the feet along the sides of her body. Under the green mantle, a very snow- wite dress schining , girded by a pink sash with two ends. The hevetly Lady was barefooted and her naked feet were lying on a tufa rock. The face of the Beautiful Lady shone maternal benignity, tinged with serene melancholy: on her right hand she hela rested on her breast, not a very bulky book ashy in colour, while her left hand laid on the book itself.

My first instinctive impulse was to speak, to cry but almost paralized in my doing, I felt my voice trapped in the throat .In the meantime in all the misterious cave some very delicate flowery perfume spread out I found my self down on my knees and with joined hands besides my tender children.. All of a sudden a paradisiac voice resounded through my pitiable ears giving start to a long conversation. The celestial words of the talk were not heard by my three children who could only see the Beautiful Lady and the mechanical movement of her lips. At the end of the speech, the heavenly vision vaniched taking leave with a motherly smile and sweetly bowing her head.

My little son Carlo, on watching the Beautiful lady's moving back as a sign of valediction, stood up and quickly ran towards the end corner of the cave in the attempt of seizing the hem of the Beautiful Lady's marvellous clothes but she had already disappeared. We can know only part of the things the Madonna told Bruno Cornacchiola as some of them were "a secret"to be committed to the then reigning Pope Pacelli( Pio XII) Here briefly follows what the Vergin said:" I am the one who is in the Trinity of God " " I am the Vergin of the Revelation"!"You persecute My-that's enough now"!

"Enter the Holy fold, celestial court on earth! You people pray a lot, and say the daily rosary for the convertion of the sinners, of the incredulous and for the union of Christians . " The Hail Marys you recite with faith and love, are many golden arrows which reach Jesus'heart" "With this land of sin I will work powerful miracles for the conversion of the disbelieving" "My body couldn't decay and it didn't. My son and the Angels came and rescued me at the hour of my passing away".

Since the day of the apparition Bruno-who said yes and answered the Gift of Grace- has met again the true life for himself and his beloved ones; has found the freedom of the Spirit… The land in the shade of the eucalypti at the "Three fountains" wich was a place for the people's flesh-market turns from hostel of corruption in to land of Heaven, of healing and light. Horeover a boundless sea of people of any age and axtraction has here obtanied conversion, love and peace!