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Emma C. de Guzman (born December 8, 1949 in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines) is a Filipino Roman Catholic widow, laywoman, stigmatist and claimed Marian visionary. She is the co-founder, along with the late Sister Soledad Gaviola, of the Catholic lay group association ''La Pieta'', dedicated to a Marian devotion under the title ''Mother of Love, Peace and Joy''. Guzman claims to have first seen the Virgin Mary on the Feast of the Nativity of Mary in 1991. She is reputedly notable for her alleged Marian visions under trance, particularly the golden dust (Spanish: ''Escarchas'', English: "''Frost''") which allegedly manifests on her face during her trances. She claims to have communicated with Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, various angels and souls seeking penitence and has been observed by various high ranking Filipino Catholic prelates, recorded in photographs and on live video. The group specifically seeks to promote prayer and peace to various nations through any particular Marian devotion. The La Pieta prayer group, along with its apparition, stigmata, and miraculous events are currently unapproved, though pending investigation by the Holy See. The group is openly tolerated and endorsed by various leading international bishops, including the former Apostolic Papal Nuncio to the Philippines, Archbishop Antonio Franco, Cardinal Jaime Lachica Sin, and Cardinal Francis Eugene George.〔 ==History== Previously in 1984, Emma de Guzman was an impoverished domestic helper in Singapore, and later sought to find work in an overseas nanny housekeeping job in Toronto, Ontario. She is also the mother of three children to whom she worked to financially support them.〔(Carballo, Bibsy M., "What is the real message of the Virgin to Emma de Guzman?", ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'', December 13, 2009 )〕 Emma attributes her first mystical encounter with a whirlwind at a church, where a leaf landed on her foot which bore a piece of paper enlisting a potential job for her in Ontario, Canada. In Canada, her best friend, Sol Gaviola, had organized a pilgrimage to the Fatima Shrine in Youngstown, New York, in 1991, and took her along.〔 Emma mentioned that the Virgin Mary taught her how to pray the Holy Rosary, and requested her numerous times to pray them over, and over again through the course of three successive nights. In addition, she claims that the Virgin Mary emphatically immersed Emma's emotions through the various mysteries of the Rosary as if she were actually living each decade. Emma claims to have met Jesus Christ on two separate occasions. The first occasion was in the old chapel of Our Lady of Fatima in Youngstown, New York, under the guise of an old man.〔(Gorillo, Cesar. "The mystical experience of Emma de Guzman", ''Gold Star Daily'', January 21, 2014 )〕 The second occasion was during a trance, to which she claims that Jesus directed her to a copy of the New Testament of the Bible. Many of Emma's followers during her Wednesday group meetings attested to the fragrances and oils which anonymously oozed out of religious statues in the home. In 2009, a letter was circulated by unknown parties, claiming the Virgin Mary predicted the results of the upcoming presidential election.〔(Farol, Paul. "Blessed Virgin Mary says Noynoy will be President in 2010", AsianCorrespondent.com, September 18, 2009 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emma de Guzman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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