Birzebbugia mystic delivers Virgin’s message to ‘serve and love’ priests

Self-styled holy mystic Angelik Caruana has delivered what he claims is a message from the Holy Virgin of Borg in-Nadur, a shrine in Birzebbugia, calling for prayers for the Church’s priests.

Coming hot on the heels of a prison sentence for two former members of the Missionary Society of St Paul over sex abuse charges, which is currently under appeal, Caruana’s message calls on Christians to “love and not vilify priests.”

“They are my children and you have to put them first among others. Respect them. Love them. And serve them, my children.”

The alleged message also calls on faithful to keep priests safe in the same way “farmers kept bread and water in a cradle beneath their carts… that’s how our priests should be treated. Even if perhaps one of them errs, do not vilify them or break them. Not everybody should be blamed.”

In the message, the Virgin is reported telling faithful to pray for their spiritual pastors and the Maltese church so it does not meet the fate of similar churches in other countries.

Caruana claims to receive messages from the Virgin Mary and has a statue that weeps tears of blood. But an internal Curia document had found the blood on the statue inside the home of Angelik Caruana had in fact been human blood, allegedly that belonging to Caruana himself.

In a previous message delivered to Caruana on 4 August, the Virgin Mary was said to have promised a spring that would provide water that will heal the sick.

Last May he delivered a message claiming the Virgin Mary was exhorting voters to vote against the introduction of divorce. Perhaps too similar to the claims by finance minister Tonio Fenech that the ‘Madonna is weeping for the Maltese’, the alleged message said: “indeed, my heart is aching. The heart of my Son Jesus aches as well. At times I also weep because of you, my children. Yes indeed, my children, I say it again: my heart aches!”