On Palm Sunday during Lent, after one of the most difficult years for the world since World War 2, I decided to write a blog post about a long forgotten miraculous event that occurred on October 29th of 1945. The world was still in turmoil from World War 2 just ending a couple of months earlier.

A nine year old boy, one of eighteen children born to immigrant parents from Italy, was playing in a vacant lot close to his family’s home on Villa Avenue in the Bronx, New York. Little Joseph Vitolo saw a figure floating in the air. The figure was the Blessed Mother dressed in pink. She called out to Joseph, knowing his name. None of the other children playing in the lot noticed Her.