Valeria Vargas Valverde experienced a miracle through Carlo Acutis. From being on the verge of death to seeing her like this, with barely any lasting effects and reading about the canonization of the person who saved her life.
LILIANA VALVERDE
Mother of Valeria
Carlo saved both of us. He saved Valeria and he saved me too. Valeria is an only child. So, when you are about to lose the person you love the most—which in my case is Valeria—and suddenly these kinds of things happen, you definitely change, you change everything. Your life completely changes.
Her daughter had a nearly fatal bicycle accident in Florence. Traveling from Costa Rica, the mother then decided to go to Assisi on July 9. She barely knew anything about Carlo Acutis at the time.
LILIANA VALVERDE
Mother of Valeria
If someone asks me what rationally made me take that decision, I don’t have a rational answer. I just felt something, and as Carlo said, ‘It’s not me; it’s God.’ God used me as an instrument for this: to go, to ask and ask in front of Carlo’s tomb on July 9 for about four hours.
It was when she left the sanctuary where Carlo’s body rests that Liliana felt something had happened. She was convinced her daughter would survive.
LILIANA VALVERDE
Mother of Valeria
When I left Assisi to take the train back to Florence, I left convinced that Valeria was going to heal completely, because it’s important for you to know that it wasn’t just a physical healing, but the other great miracle was that she didn’t need therapy.
From the beginning, for Valeria’s mother, everything was a miracle; an intercession now officially recognized by the Vatican, and the reason behind the green light for Acutis to become a saint.
LILIANA VALVERDE
Mother of Valeria
What I can say is a conviction—I’ve always been very rational—that this was a full-fledged miracle. And, medically speaking, for the skeptics, the doctors showed, for example, that when she had the accident, which was on July 2, and arrived at the hospital near death, by July 18, they did a CT scan and the scan showed that her brain was completely deflated.
Liliana had the opportunity to meet Antonia Salzano, Carlo’s mother, and was able to thank her for all that a saint had done for Valeria.
LILIANA VALVERDE
Mother of Valeria
One of my dreams was to meet Carlo’s mother because for me, she was the closest I could get to him, to Carlo. When I met her in Assisi, I gave her a very strong, warm hug.
They embraced mother-to-mother, united by their two children. Valeria lives a normal life, like any other person of her time; the same normalcy attributed to Carlo. Liliana now has her fully recovered daughter, and Antonia now has the certainty that her son is in heaven.
CA
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