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Face à l'oeuvre dévastatrice que l'ennemi déploie sans mesure dans les âmes, Marie lance un cri de maternelle souffrance aigüe, qui semble s'élever de l'abîme d'amour de Son coeur blessé, appel destiné à déchirer le voile de torpeur spirituelle où se sont laissés glisser de nombreux coeurs, parmi les appelés à Son grand plan de salut : "Je vous appelle tous d'une manière spéciale à la prière et au renoncement. Maintenant comme jamais auparavant satan désire montrer au monde son visage honteux, par lequel il veut tromper le plus de gens possible et les mener sur le chemin de la mort et du péché. C'est pourquoi, chers enfants, aidez mon Coeur Immaculé à triompher dans un monde de péché" (mess. 25.09.1991).
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Upon hearing this, the man to whom she was unwillingly betrothed betrayed her to the governor as a Christian, and the latter ordered her to be taken to the brothel. When the guards came to take her they were unable to move her: the Holy Spirit held her and fastened her as by a great weight. Many attempts to remove her were in vain; she stood firm as a mountain. A legend goes that not even two oxen were able to move her, and when a great pile was lit around her and she was sprinkled with pitch and oil, Lucy told her torturers: "I have obtained from Christ in prayer that this deadly fire will have no power over me, that you will be put to shame, and that through my example believers will see the value of martyrdom, and the veil of pride will fall from unbelievers."
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