Paranormal record / 1964
Friday, 16 October 1964. Noon. Rosa Quattrini, a farmer and mother of three in the hamlet of San Damiano near Piacenza, was praying the Angelus when she heard a voice. "Come, come, I'm waiting for you!" In the garden hung a cloud of gold and silver, surrounded by stars and roses of many colours. A red sphere fell from the sky and settled on a small pear tree. Out of it, she said, came the Virgin, in a bright light. The pear tree flowered in October. Thousands came to see it. For seventeen years Rosa reported visions every Friday, and pilgrims spoke of a spinning sun. The Church would come to disagree.
Rosa Buzzini Quattrini was a farmer in San Damiano, a hamlet of San Giorgio Piacentino about 20 km from Piacenza, on the right bank of the Nure. She was married to Giuseppe Quattrini and had three children. After caesarean births and surgery for perforating peritonitis in 1952, her wounds would not heal. She was ill for about nine years.