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MILLIONAIRE GIVES IT ALL AWAY AFTER SEEING THE BLESSED VIRGIN AT 
MEDJUGORJE

@Spirit Daily

His name is Ferdinand Roccanti. He used to be a multimillionaire. He 
used to
be in trouble with the law. He is now an evangelist and the story he 
has to
recount is incredible. It was in 1992 that he traveled for the first 
time to
the apparition site of Medjugorje and there witnessed what he describes 
as a
huge manifestation of the Virgin Mary.

Once a car dealer in New England and then Florida, where he amassed a 
small
fortune of $5 million, Roccanti and his wife Barbara were going up
Apparition Hill on September 12, where one of the seers, Ivan 
Dragicevic,
was to receive a message. "Barbara had some candles and we climbed
Apparition Hill and I knelt by this pile of rocks where they said 
Mother
Mary first appeared -- not to think that she was going to appear, but 
just
because it seemed like the place to kneel -- and at nine o'clock we 
started
to pray," he says. "It was dark and I prayed this prayer, I don't even 
know
where it came from: 'God, God of Abraham and Jacob and Isaac and Moses, 
do
You know I'm here?'

"I had my head bowed and my hands folded together in prayer. I didn't 
see
this hand but I felt a hand come under my chin and lift my head up and 
the
heavens opened and He sent His mother. When I say the heavens opened 
up, it
was daytime to my eyes. She was all white and as big as the heavens. I 
went
to point my finger up and say, 'Look!' but my hand froze halfway and 
now I
couldn't talk. I couldn't move my hand, I couldn't talk, and I couldn't 
take
my eyes off her, so I touched my wife with my left hand and I could 
only
whisper. When I touched her she looked and in a whisper I said, 'Look 
up and
tell me what you see,' and she said, 'I see her!' Mother Mary didn't 
talk to
either one of us, but there was something that happened deep in our 
hearts
and souls that would change our lives forever. I really believe that 
once
you see the Mother of God -- I don't know how someone could describe
something so incredible."

When Ferdinand told a priest, the priest later heard the exact same
testimony from another pilgrim.

Flying back, Ferdinand was sitting on the end of the fifth seat on the
middle row of a plane when a woman, another pilgrim, came and sat on 
the arm
of his seat as the flight attendant was wheeling a cart in the area, 
reached
in her purse, pulled out a Pieta book, and put it in front of his eyes,
asking, "Have you seen her?"

The question was a shock. It had come out of the blue and was a 
confirmation
to Ferdinand, who says the Virgin he saw on Apparition Hill did look "a
little bit" like the picture [see below], "but she was as big as the
heavens, enormous. And when she left there were these shooting stars. I
thought everyone had to have seen it, but nobody did but Barbara and 
one
other person. It was a white or light-blue sky like heaven's light. And 
it
was just her face."

 For Barbara, it was similar. "The sky was pitch dark, we could hardly 
find
our way up the mountain, but when the vision appeared, I saw her face 
and it
looked all white and she was up in the sky and it was just huge and 
when I
looked down and looked back she was still there," Barbara recalls. "She 
was
sort of transparent and all white and all bright. It was very clear."

In 1993, Christ allegedly spoke asking Ferdinand to be a victim soul.

"There were three things Jesus said to me," claims the former 
businessman.
"My mom, my wife, and my sister were there. He said, 'Ferdinand, would 
you
be blind for me?' Immediately I closed my eyes really tight like a 
little
kid and started crying. I couldn't talk. I was choking. I thought, no 
way,
I'm not saying yes. Then He said, 'Ferdinand, would you be in a 
wheelchair?'
I'm crying and choking and my poor mom, she thought I was going to die. 
And
then He said, 'Would you give away all your money?'

"Now my mind is racing. This is the worst news I've ever heard, so I 
cried
more. I'm choking, crying. I could not say yes. Everyone laughs when I 
say
it, but I wasn't laughing. I was crying like a person who just lost his
whole family. My mother was really upset. I was crying and choking. She
thought I'd die. But Mother Mary came and said, 'Take a tear and touch 
your
mother's arm.' My mother became calm, and she had been really 
hysterical. I
touched my sister and wife also and they became calm and relaxed like 
on a
sunny day. Mother Mary said, 'Little Ferdinand, I'm giving you my 
heart,'
and I felt this incredible infusion of power and I said, 'Jesus, do 
with me
what You want.'"

It was then that the former car dealer developed ailments that indeed
temporarily took away his sight and sent him into a wheelchair. It was 
a
neuromuscular disease called myasthenia gravis. He went blind on 
September
16, 1994, and a month later -- on October 13, 1994 -- experienced 
another
vision, this time of Mary as Our Lady of Fatima. She also appeared to 
him
during 1993 in St. Peter's and Paul's Church in Chicago. As for the 
money,
by now this businessman who had once sold BMWs and Volvos had about 
$1.4
million left and began to give this away "to whoever Mother Mary lead 
me
to" -- individuals, churches. He bought new cars for people. He kept 
only
enough to pay a fine he owed over a financial transaction (which had 
sent
him seeking refuge at Medjugorje to begin with), buy a small house, and 
pay
legal fees. For a long period he and his wife traveled, living out of 
the
trunk of their car.

Today he relies on selling inspirational paintings. This was another 
miracle
for a man who didn't previously know how to paint!

Before a talk at St. Michael's College in Vermont, dozens of evil 
spirits
attacked, Roccanti told Spirit Daily. "I was punched, threatened, and
bounced around the room," he says. "I would spray them with Holy Water 
and
you could hear it like a sizzle."

And in this too is a message.

 "Every time you pray a mystery of the Rosary, you hit the devil right
between the eyes, and in these times that we're living in, you need  to 
hit
him 15 times," urges Ferdinand. "Because if you whack him in the 
forehead
with those mysteries, by the end of the day he's dazed and he can't get 
you.
But he'll start again tomorrow if you don't pray."

Now a resident of Grange, Indiana, Roccanti feels the United States 
will
suffer for next four years. On September 11, while in church, he says 
Jesus
spoke to him, repeating a sentence three times. "He said, 'This is the
beginning of the punishment against the killing of the innocent,'" 
recalls
Ferdinand. "'This is the beginning of the punishment against the 
killing of
the innocent.' He said it three times. Some people don't want to hear 
it --
you know, 'God wouldn't do this.' And I say, well, the God Who sent the
serpents into the desert to kill the Israelites because they were
disobedient is the same God."

[We'll be making a video of Ferdinand's testimony to a TV station 
available
soon. To contact Ferdinand write:  Focus Worldwide Network, 106 
Metairie
Lawn Drive, Metairie, LA 70001; By Phone: (504) 840-9898]

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