- "Whosoever dies wearing
this scapular, shall not
suffer eternal fire." (Our Lady)
- A priest relates how one day in a town near Chicago he was called
- to the bedside of a man who had been away form the Sacrament for
- many years. “The man did not want to see me:
- he would not talk. Then I asked him to look at the little Scapular
- I was holding. ‘Will you wear this if I put this on you?’
- I ask nothing more. He agreed to wear it and within the hour
- he wanted to go to confession and make his peace with God.
- This did not surprise me, because for 700 years Our Lady has been working
- in this way through Her Scapular.”
On the very day Our Lady gave the Scapular to St. Simon,
- he was hurriedly called by Lord Peter of Linton:
- “Come quickly, Father, my brother is dying in despair!”
- St. Simon left at once for the bedside of the dying man. Upon arrival he placed his large Scapular
- over the dying man, asking Our Blessed Mother to keep Her promise.
- Immediately the man repented, and died in the grace and friendship of God.
- That night the dead man appeared to his brother and said, “I have been saved
- through the most powerful Queen and the Habit of that man as a shield.”
St. Alphonsus tell us: “Modern heretics make a mockery of wearing the Scapular,
- they decry it as so much trifling nonsense.” Yet many of the popes have
- approved and recommended it.
- It is remarkable that only 25 years after the Scapular vision, Blessed Pope
- Gregory X was buried wearing the Scapular, when his tomb was opened
- 600 years after his death, his Scapular was found intact. It can be seen,
- perfectly preserved in the Arezzo museum, in Italy.