Teresa Musco: Life, Visions, and Messages

Teresa Musco is an Italian mystic of the 20th century. She received the stigmata of the Savior and was very well known for this. She also received the gift of prophecy and was sometimes visited by her guardian angel, who came to see her for the first time when she was five years old. Teresa also had visions of the Son of God, the Holy Virgin Mary, and of saints, who transmitted messages to her, notably of an eschatological nature.

Biography of Teresa Musco

Teresa Musco was born on June 7, 1943 in Caiazzo, in the province of Caserta, near Naples, into a poor family of ten children.

Her father was quick-tempered and very violent, she suffered greatly from this. Her mother, on the other hand, was of astonishing gentleness compared to her husband. She was very submissive and attentive to the slightest desire of her husband and his fits of rage. Teresa's mother, Rosa Zullo, was also very devoted to the smallest children and generous. She transmitted this virtue to her children and took care to teach them the rudiments of the faith, to flee evil, and to do only good around them.

The first years of Teresa's life were quite dark because of the Second World War which was raging; the battles were then ravaging southern Italy. The conflict affected agricultural work and prevented food supplies from reaching certain Italian regions. Teresa therefore had to start working at a very young age with her parents to provide for her family's needs.

She began to have the first visions of Christ, of His Holy Mother, of angels and saints. Her ecstasies and visions offered inner peace and wisdom to the girl, who was usually turbulent and mischievous.

Already, on January 9, 1948, the Holy Virgin had healed her foot which was burned in the fire. Teresa had recounted that a "beautiful Lady" had dressed her burn. Eight days after the accident, all trace of the serious injury had disappeared. On January 21 of the same year, the Virgin had appeared to her, saying "My daughter, I am your heavenly mother who guides you on the path that pleases my beloved Son." From then on, the visions turned into preachings. Terese knew from the age of five many details about her future adult life.

One day, when the Child Jesus had come to visit her, He asked her "Teresa, do you love me?". She replied: "Yes! And do you love me?". Then, looking at her, Jesus replied: "Yes! And if it were necessary, I would be ready to be crucified again for you."**

At seven years old, she was already very devoted to the Holy Mother of Jesus and knew the importance of her role. Teresa felt her presence at her side. Because of high fevers and painful colics whose origin would remain mysterious, the little girl could only start school at the age of nine and sporadically. On January 10, 1950, already suffering greatly, Jesus appeared to her and said to her "Prepare yourself to receive me in Holy Communion, for I desire to come to you, so that the two of us may become one". That same day, Teresa received the Holy Host, after having confessed.

During a vision, the Holy Virgin warned her that she would suffer greatly during her life and that she absolutely had to note down all the messages she received from Heaven because one day she would have to present them to priests. The angel Gabriel, also present that day, added: "You will climb Calvary with Jesus". Indeed, Teresa was very ill all her life and underwent one hundred and seventeen surgical operations.

On January 3, 1952, the Mother of Jesus appeared and said to her: "I appeared in Portugal where I gave messages, but no one listened to me [...]. To you, I am going to speak about the third secret that I entrusted to Lucia, at Fatima. I can tell you that it has already been read, but no one has spoken about it." Father Roschini, Teresa's biographer, adds: "The Madonna predicted to Teresa the journey of Paul VI to Fatima, where he would invite everyone to prayer and penance and She further confides that the pope would not dare to speak of the secret, because it is dreadful."

On August 1, 1952, Teresa had a vision of Jesus on a road "filled with thorns". He then asked her "My daughter, do you want to help me carry this Cross?". Immediately, two strangers approached her, laid her on a cross and nailed her to it. Teresa then woke up sweating. She suffered terribly in her hands, feet, and side. She then noticed that wounds had appeared. She was stigmatized. These wounds could not be due to self-mutilation because their clinical evolution totally escaped that of a natural scar.

In 1954, Teresa received from the Virgin Mary her "life program": "God alone for a goal, Jesus for a model, Mary for a guide, the guardian angel for support, and myself for sacrifice."* She dedicated her entire existence to meticulously applying this program. On April 12, 1955, lying on her bed, Teresa saw a great ray of sunlight appear in the center of which was an angel. He said to her: "You have accepted the cross, and soon you will arrive at Calvary. When you have arrived there, your body will be like a crucifix and your heart like a living tabernacle..."

The Lord gave her several extraordinary charisms in addition to the gift of visions, prophecies, her ecstasies and her stigmata: Teresa could read hearts, could bilocate and speak in unknown tongues during her ecstasies.

On October 15, 1963, she took a vow of virginity. The unexplained phenomena kept multiplying and became daily. Father Franco Amico, who assisted Teresa in the last years of her life, testified to this, as did hundreds of other witnesses.

On the Assumption of 1974, she saw "a beautiful Lady" whose "voice was like a melody"; "from her hands came luminous rays". The beautiful lady was dressed in white, with a blue belt and a mantle "the color of the sky", her "feet rest on a white cloud". This woman said to Teresa: "My daughter, I am in your midst to see who wants to offer themselves as a victim on this earth in order to then enjoy the reign of my Son. Do you want to accept it?". Then, Teresa accepted, without thinking.

In April 1976, the mystic's health deteriorated strongly. The wounds of the Passion tired her and caused her terrible suffering. She was taken to the hospital on June 23, 1976. At that moment the doctors examined her stigmata. They declared "These are authentic stigmata." Her health continued to deteriorate from then on. She was increasingly tired and the medical examinations and treatments did nothing to improve her condition.

Teresa Musco finally joined the Lord, at 33 years old, on August 19, 1976. Her cause for beatification was opened in October 2004, with the agreement of the bishops of the Campania region.

Excerpt from a Message Received by Teresa Musco

"[...] Know, my daughter, that Satan reigns in the highest places. When Satan reaches the summit of the Church, know that he will then be able to seduce the minds of the great scientists and that will be the moment when the latter will intervene with very powerful weapons [by which] it is possible to destroy a great part of humanity. And now they do not even weep for their errors, because for many prayer no longer exists, and then God the Father will show once again the Power of His great chastisement, but He will not do it yet: He waits for real forgiveness to be asked. The thorns that you see around my Heart are to atone for so many grave sins that are continually unleashed against the Heart of my Son. My daughter, I ask you to offer yourself for the love of Jesus and to atone for the faults of sinners. From 1972, the time of Satan and the time of great trials will begin. My daughter, the moment is very delicate, cardinals will oppose cardinals, bishops against bishops; there is no love among them and many of [my] chosen sons find themselves without love and have scattered: they no longer know how to take souls but they cannot manage to pray."

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