The time the Blessed Virgin Mary reaped hay to let a little girl rest（ do not work on Sunday)
This beloved story from Northern Italy tells of a miraculous apparition when Our Lady came to the aid of a little girl.
This story of faith comes to us from Porzus, a small town in northern Italy, almost bordering Slovenia. The protagonist is a well-behaved little girl named Teresa Dush.
Teresa was born on September 11, 1845, in Porzus, and was baptized on the same day. Her parents, Giuseppe Dush and Caterina Grimaz, had been married for 18 years before the child arrived, so they considered her a great gift from God.
They were a very poor family and lived on a steep and rocky land where the harvest was scarce and the landscape was only meadows and pastures.
Although Teresa had very fragile health, she never complained about the fatigue caused by the work she had to do with her parents. At the age of 9, she began to take catechism lessons with the pastor of her church, and was always attentive to what he taught.
An event that changed the whole town
On September 8, 1855, the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (a holy day of obligation at the time), three days short of Teresa's 10th birthday, an extraordinary event took place that would forever mark the entire city of Porzus.
Caterina, the girl's mother, had completely forgotten about that holy day of obligation, which in that year fell on Saturday. The complication was that the next day was Sunday, and both were days on which, by Church teaching, they should abstain from labor – but they had not collected enough hay to feed the animals.
Obviously they could not leave the poor animals without food for two days, so Caterina called Teresa and told her to go and cut some hay in the meadow.
The girl timidly reminded her mother that she had learned in catechism that Catholics should not work on holy days. Her mother understood, but replied, "If we eat, the animals must also eat."
Full of doubts, the girl obeyed her mother and went to the meadow, asking for guidance from the Virgin Mary whom she loved so much. As soon as she raised the sickle to cut the hay, she felt someone take it out of her hand.
She looked up and saw a beautiful Lady, who with a sweet voice said to her:
"You shouldn't work on this holy day! Here, this will do," cutting some hay and handing it to the girl.
Then she added, "Tell everyone to sanctify the name of the Lord and not to blaspheme, because in doing so they offend my Son and wound my maternal Heart. Moreover, I want days of fasting and vigils to be observed."
Quickly the news spread throughout the city. She answered the villagers who did not believe what she said: "Tell Our Lady to give you another sign."
The "other sign" was not long in coming
The following Sunday, while Teresa was in church, the Virgin Mary appeared to her again. She was next to the altar wearing a dress covered with roses, and she called to the girl.
The girl fearfully approached her. All her friends and everyone who was in the church saw the girl participate in a long conversation, but didn’t see anything else.
She left the church in ecstasy and later said that the Virgin had accompanied her home, and that before leaving, she left her a gift. This gift was the sign that the villagers had asked for: the mark of a cross shining like gold, about 2 inches long, imprinted on the back of the girl's left hand.
This sign could be seen by everyone, and no matter how hard they tried to clean the cross off Teresa's hand, it would not go away; in fact, it became even brighter.
The Virgin Mary later continued to give private revelations to Teresa, who eventually became a religious, living a life of devotion, humility, and obedience.
Her health had always been precarious, but eventually she was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis. During the "Calvary" of her illness, the cross on her hand became red, and when she died (she was not yet 25 years old), it became white.
The sanctuary dedicated to Our Lady of Health
After the first apparition, the people began to observe an unusual phenomenon at the site of the vision: The meadow was always in bloom, and in the winter when it snowed, it melted at that spot before anywhere else. They started gathering there every Sunday to pray the Holy Rosary.
In 1885 they decided to build a small chapel, and in 1886 they put up a picture depicting the scene of the apparition, with a message written on the top: "Keep the feast days holy. Do not blaspheme, and observe fasts and vigils."Sunday)
聖母瑪利亞收割乾草讓小女孩休息的故事（請勿在星期日工作）
這個來自義大利北部的動人故事講述了聖母顯靈，幫助一位小女孩的奇蹟。
這個關於信仰的故事來自義大利北部的小鎮波爾祖斯，它幾乎與斯洛維尼亞接壤。故事的主角是一位名叫特蕾莎·杜什的乖巧小女孩。
特蕾莎於1845年9月11日出生於波爾祖斯，並於當天受洗。她的父母朱塞佩·杜什和卡特琳娜·格里馬茲在她出生前已經結婚18年，因此他們認為她是上主賜予的珍貴禮物。
他們家境貧寒，居住在陡峭多石的土地上，那裡農作物稀少，只有草地和牧場。
儘管特蕾莎體弱多病，但她從未抱怨過因幫父母工作而帶來的疲憊。九歲時，她開始跟隨教會神父學習教理問答，並且總是認真聆聽。
一件改變整個小鎮的事件
1855年9月8日，聖母誕辰日（當時是必須遵守的節日），距離特蕾莎十歲生日還有三天，一件非同尋常的事件發生了，它將永遠銘刻在波爾祖斯鎮的歷史上。
特蕾莎的母親卡特琳娜完全忘記了這個必須遵守的節日，而那一年這個節日恰逢星期六。更糟的是，第二天是星期日，根據教會的教義，這兩天都應該停止勞動——但她們卻沒有收集到足夠的乾草來餵養牲畜。
顯然，她們不能讓可憐的牲畜餓兩天，於是卡特琳娜叫來特蕾莎，讓她去草地上割些乾草。
特蕾莎怯生生地提醒母親，在教義問答課上學到，天主教徒在聖日不應該工作。母親明白了，但回答說：“我們吃東西，牲畜也得吃。”
特蕾莎滿懷疑，但還是聽從母親的話，去了草地，向她深愛的聖母瑪利亞祈求指引。她剛舉起鐮刀準備割草，就覺得有人從她手中拿走了鐮刀。
她抬頭一看，是一位美麗的女士，女士用甜美的聲音對她說：
「你不該在聖日工作！給你，這些就夠了。」說著，她割了一些乾草遞給特蕾莎。
然後她補充說：“告訴所有人要尊崇主的名，不可褻瀆，因為褻瀆會冒犯我的聖子，傷透我的慈母之心。此外，我希望大家守齋和守夜。”
消息很快傳遍全城。她對那些不相信她話的村民說：“告訴聖母，讓她再給你們一個神蹟。”
「另一個神蹟」很快就來了。
接下來的星期天，當特蕾莎在教堂裡時，聖母瑪利亞再次顯現。她身穿玫瑰花飾的長裙，站在祭壇旁，呼喚著特蕾莎。
特蕾莎戰戰兢兢地走近她。她的朋友和教堂裡的所有人都看到她與聖母進行了長時間的交談，但除此之外，他們什麼也沒看到。
特蕾莎欣喜若狂地離開了教堂，後來她說聖母陪伴她回家，臨走前還給她留下了一份禮物。這份禮物正是村民們所求的：一個閃耀著金色光芒的十字架印記，大約兩吋長，印在女孩左手背上。
每個人都能看到這個印記，無論他們如何努力擦拭，都無法將其從特蕾莎的手上抹去；事實上，它變得更加明亮。
聖母瑪利亞後來繼續向特蕾莎進行私人啟示，她最終成為一名修女，過著虔誠、謙遜和順服的生活。
她的健康狀況一直不太好，最後被診斷出患有肺結核。在她病痛的「苦行」中，她手上的十字架變成了紅色，在她去世時（她還不到25歲），十字架變成了白色。
獻給健康聖母的聖殿
第一次顯靈之後，人們開始注意到顯靈地點出現了一種不尋常的現象：草地總是鮮花盛開，冬天下雪時，那裡的雪總是比其他地方先融化。於是，他們開始每週日聚集在那裡誦念玫瑰經。
1885年，他們決定建造一座小聖堂。 1886年，他們掛上了一幅描繪顯靈場景的畫作，畫作上方寫著：「守聖日，不可褻瀆神明，並遵守齋戒和守夜。」（星期日）
