The pope met with a woman who found a statue of the Virgin in a garbage dump before receiving local church members at the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Ulaanbaatar on the 2nd.
(Vatican News Network) Pope Francis met with Ms. Tsetsege in a yurt outside the Ulaanbaatar Cathedral on September 2. The mother of 11, the beautifully carved wooden figure was found in a dump more than a decade ago. Qiqige didn’t immediately understand that it was the image of the Immaculate Virgin. After returning home, she whispered to her family, “This beautiful woman is willing to come and live in my tent.” When she learned who the statue was, she handed it over to the Catholic community, and later, the statue was placed in a local parish.
The story of this image of the Virgin was later also told to Card Giorgio Marengo, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar. “It immediately occurred to me what the Virgin was trying to tell us by rediscovering this image,” said the cardinal. In a recent article in the Roman Observer newspaper, Cardinal Marengo said he could not explain “how the statue of the Virgin ended up in the dump, especially in that part of Mongolia where there are very few Catholics”. Therefore, according to the cardinal, “the Lord, through his Mother, is present in the worst situations, saying to us that he is close to each of us”.
Card Marengo also noted that the Virgin “is always ready to meet us, even where there is despair, abandonment, pain and abandonment”. “Regarding the image of the Virgin, I also mentioned it to the Pope when I visited the Vatican with a delegation of Mongolian Buddhists: I showed him an image and he was very happy about it,” said the cardinal. On December 8 last year, the statue of the Virgin Mary was placed in the Ulaanbaatar Cathedral. On this occasion, Card Marengo dedicated the whole of Mongolia to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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2023-09-03 10:08:42
