Our Lady of Medjugorje’s Stones & Exorcism
By Italian Exorcist Msgr. Ferruccio Sutto
I had received a gift from a friend who was on pilgrimage in Medjugorje. It was a piece of rock from Mount Podobro where it is said Our Lady has been appearing and giving messages to alleged visionaries for more than 25 years. Whether that is a blessed place like Lourdes, Fatima, and Guadalupe, there is no definitive judgment on the part of the Church. I thought that if it were, the reactions of a person possessed by a demon should be the same for a relic that comes from Medjugorje as for those that came from the aforementioned sanctuaries. I wanted to do a test. At the appointment with Lorena, I brought the secret in my little sac. Nobody knew of it, not even my collaborators. One could only see paper through the transparent cellophane. At a certain moment during the exorcism, when the woman was already in a trance, I moved towards her. She was lying on a little bed. I started to insert the little plastic bag under her sweater. It contained, enveloped in paper, the piece of rock from Mount Podobro. As soon as the sac touched the hem of the skirt of Lorena and the little package was in contact with her blouse, she jumped. It was as if she wanted to get away from the hands of the four men who were holding her. She cried, "Take it away!"
The exorcist asked why he should take it away. The demon, in a convulsion of reactions that manifested his great suffering, then exclaimed several times, "It hurts me! It burns me! It is crushing me. It is crushing me! Take it away! Take it away!" The priest explicitly asked the demon what was in the little sac. And he expressed his refusal to remove it, if the demon would not tell him what it was. At a certain point when the demon could not stand it anymore, he let out a cry with one word: "Gospa!" Monsignor Sutto concludes, "Gospa" is the Croatian term with which one indicates the beautiful lady that appears to the alleged visionaries of Medjugorje and that they affirm to be Our Lady. Even before he said the word "Gospa", though, the response was evident to me in the immediate and violent reactions of Lorena when she was touched by that simple package containing the modest piece of rock from the mountain of the apparitions. ~ Italian Exorcist Msgr. Ferruccio Sutto (The Virgin Mary and the Devil in Exorcism, page 179 -180)
