David Dionisi in the video you posted (about the 38 minute mark) says the 2019 message from sister about putting on sackcloth and ashes never happened.
It is amazing that time after time authentic apparitions are met with extreme hostility from many clergy, including senior clergy and even the Vatican itself. Often really nasty, aggressive and brutal. So often that it is almost expected.
Yes, i'd only seen the first ten minutes or so when I posted the video. Definitely food for thought if that's the case. The source seemed genuine and the message from 2019 was widely accepted. If it was an elaborate hoax, whoever started it should consider putting on sackcloth and ashes.
The finished item....Osamu Tanimoto posted this completed version of his wonderful painting (I shared some earlier versions of the work in progress, around June).
A painting of Saint Carlo Acutis by the same Japanese artist who painted the picture above. (Osamu Tanimoto)
From Totus Tuus page: "In the early 1600s, Japanese authorities expelled all Christian missionaries and launched severe persecutions. Priests were killed or forced to leave, leaving thousands of Japanese converts completely isolated from the Church. For over 250 years, these faithful souls — known as the “Hidden Christians” (Kakure Kirishitan) — lived in secrecy. They had no priests, no public Masses, no sacraments, and no Bibles. Yet their Catholic faith did not vanish. They passed down the teachings of Christ from generation to generation. They secretly baptized their children. And in the silence of their homes, they clung to one powerful lifeline: the Holy Rosary. Using simple knotted cords instead of beads, they prayed the Rosary daily. The mysteries of Christ’s life became their catechism. The Hail Marys and Our Fathers became their prayers, their comfort, and their hidden Mass. Through the Rosary, they remained united with Jesus and Mary even in the darkest decades of persecution. When missionaries finally returned to Japan in the mid-1800s, they were astonished to find entire communities still faithfully preserving the Catholic Faith — all because of the Rosary. This incredible story reminds us that the Rosary is far more than a devotion. It is a spiritual weapon, a school of faith, and a chain of grace that can sustain us through trials, isolation, and uncertainty. In our own busy and sometimes challenging world, may the example of the Hidden Christians inspire us to pray the Rosary with greater love and fidelity. Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us!"
The Hidden Christians of Japan used these images which outwardly looked like Kannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy and compassion (She is known as Kuan Yin in China), to secretly venerate and pray to the Blessed Mother. The carved images are known as Maria - Kannon.
Excerpt from the book The World's First Love by Fulton Sheen: "There is a beautiful legend of Kwan-yin, the Chinese Goddess of Mercy, to whom so many pleadings have gone from Chinese lips. According to legend, this princess lived in China hundreds of years before Christ was born. Her father, the King, wished her to marry. But, resolving upon a life of virginity, she took refuge in a convent. Her angry father burned the convent and forced her to return to his palace. Given the alternative of death or marriage, she insisted on her vow of virginity, and so her father strangled her. Her body was brought to hell by a tiger. It was there she won the title "Goddess of Mercy." Her intercession for mercy was so great, and she so softened the hard hearts of hell, that the very devils ordered her to leave. They were afraid she would empty hell. She then returned to the island of Pluto off the coast of Chekiang where, even to this day, pilgrims travel to her shrine. The Chinese have at times pictured her as wearing on her head the image of God, to Whose heaven she brings the faithful, although she herself refuses to enter heaven, so long as there is a single soul excluded. Western civilization, too, has its ideals. Homer, a thousand years before Christ, threw into the stream of history the mystery of a woman faithful in sorrow and loneliness. While her husband, Ulysses, was away on his travels, Penelope was courted by many suitors. She told them she would marry one of them when she finished weaving a garment. But each night she undid the stitches she had put in it during the day, and thus she remained faithful until her husband returned. No one who sang the song of Homer could understand why he glorified this sorrowful mother, as they could not understand why, in another poem, he glorified a defeated hero. It was not for a thousand years, until the day of a defeated hero on a Cross and a sorrowful Mother beneath it, that the world understood the mysteries of Homer. The instinct of all men to look for a mother in their religion is conspicuous, even in modern times, among non-Christian peoples. Our missionaries report the most extraordinary reaction of these peoples as the Pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima was carried through the East. At the edge of Nepal, three hundred Catholics were joined by three thousand Hindus and Moslems, as four elephants carried the statue to the little Church for Rosary and Benediction. At Rajkot, which has hardly any faithful, unbelieving ministers of state and high-ranking government officials came to pay veneration. The Mayor of Nadiad read a speech of welcome and stressed how proud he was to welcome the statue. For twelve hours the crowds, almost exclusively non-Christian, passed through the Church as Masses continued from two o'clock in the morning until nine-thirty. As one old Indian put it: "She has shown us that your religion is sincere; it is not like ours. Your religion is a religion of love; ours is one of fear."
