In little more than 3 hours you can get here from Tokyo on the Akita shinkansen. They say that it is here where there is better Japan rice and its most beautiful women. The city is also well known because they have that in one of its churches appeared the Virgin Mary a 12 June 1973 to Sister Agnes Sasagawa when he prayed at the convent.
The blind sister is called “Agnes” which means lamb. She was healed of deafness, which is verified to have no medical explanation. This miracle was a sign of the authenticity of the visits of the Virgin. Since then, the statue was placed in the Church is called “Fatima for East”. Read the rest of this entry »
