KUALA LUMPUR: For two years, Anna Pereira has been seeing events unfold in her home that she considers her “book of miracles”.
She said it started when oil seeped from a painting of the Divine Mercy (a depiction of Jesus in white garment with rays emanating from his heart) at her home in Pandan Indah.
Pereira, 36, had bought the painting from the Sacred Heart Church in Jalan Peel here in September 2012 after having learned how to recite the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy.
One year later on Sept 17, Pereira was lighting incense at the altar when she noticed oil trickling down from the right hand of that image. “It was a Tuesday. I was unsure what to think. So I contacted the parish priest who asked me to let it be for three days,” said Pereira.
Subsequently, the priest came over on Friday with several other members of the parish.
“He asked for a white cloth which he then used to clean the painting. Whatever oil we had collected in cotton balls were burned as instructed by the priest,” she recalled.
Pereira said the priest sat from across the painting to observe it and as they prayed in unison, oil started to flow from the hands and feet of the image.
“The priest advised us to continue praying for the message,” she said.
Then, in October 2013, a statue of the Virgin Mary and a crown of thorns in her home started to release oil, too.
October is the month of the Holy Rosary.
During the Christian fasting month of Lent last year, that same Divine Mercy painting unveiled yet another phenomenon when it showed signs of oil and red liquid, believed to be blood, trickling from the image.
“The blood and oil flow took place for 40 days and slowly subsided towards the Divine Mercy feast day which is celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter,” said Pereira, adding that oil continued to flow out from the painting.
In April last year, a bronze Divine Mercy statue given to her as a gift started to produce oil and blood.
Pereira, who has been receiving visitors since word of the events at her house started spreading two years ago, said she would continue to offer prayers and called on the faithful to do the same.
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The statue that is reported to have oil flowing from it.
KUALA LUMPUR: Anna Pereira says she has received hundreds of calls and messages since Monday’s report of the events at her home in Pandan Indah.
A Divine Mercy painting (a depiction of Jesus in a white garment with rays emanating from his heart) and a statue of the Virgin Mary in Pereira’s home are reported to have “bled” oil, blood and even honey.
According to Pereira, Catholics from all over the country have been contacting her to set appointments to visit her home to witness the “miracles”.
“I have been getting calls and messages from the early morning ever since the news about the painting got out. Some of these calls involved a prayer group from a church that wanted to organise a tour to see the miracles,” Pereira told The Staron Tuesday.
She said that people of other religions had also contacted her for prayer requests.
Due to her work, Pereira is only able to open her house to visitors between 7pm and 9pm (from Tuesdays to Fridays) and 11am to 3pm (Saturdays) and 2pm to 7pm (Sundays).
Pereira, however, said that she would be taking off from work this Thursday (Nov 5) and would open her house from noon to 9pm.
She said she had decided to open the house this Thursday after some senior citizens expressed their desire to visit but said they could not make the trip at night.
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