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Many healing were attributed to Our Lady of Mantara: two booklets were written by bishop of Saida during the years of 1910, mentioning 16 miracles related to children and sterile women. The Lady of Mantara loves little children: most of her miracles are made for them, sometimes she is called “Our Lady of Children”. Zip until now many
children are baptized in the cave. They are then devoted to the Virgin
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Some collection of Our Lady of Mantara’s miracles
Many
noblemen of Saida , the Director of the Ottoman tobacco company , Mr. Joseph
Aumann , his wife, the French consular official, a priest, Father Nicolas Halabi
and many others , were going on pilgrimage, on Sunday June 11th 1911. In
the evening, before getting down, they wanted to salute the Virgin for the last
time.
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They entered the cave. But , what a miracle, in front of their eyes happy and
amazed the image of the good Virgin smiling , she wanted probably to show how
much she was satisfied and touched by their devout visit . She kept smiling for
ten minutes while the viewers were crying of joy looking at each other surprised
and happy.
Father
Nicolas turned towards the French consular and asked him about his opinion. The
latter took a candle, lit it then got closer to the Holy Image to make sure if
she was really smiling … then, he turned towards the crowd and shouted: I
believe! It’s a big miracle!”
Many
other miracles were committed to writing by His Eminence Haggiar, bishop of
Saida’s diocese for Greek Catholics early in the 20th century
