MYSTERY AKITA: BENEDICT CONNECTED TO STATUE 'REVELATION' IN OBSCURE CONVENTCall it "Mystery Akita." In 1984 a local bishop in Niigata, Japan, authorized veneration of the Holy Mother of Akita, a devotion based on the exudation of mysterious liquid from a wooden statue in a chapel used by nuns at a convent, particularly one named Sister Agnes Sasagawa.It all started in 1973, when a voice, a sweet, indescribable voice, like a prayer, seemed to issue from a statue dedicated to Our Lady of All Peoples. It was Sister Sasagawa -- at the time deaf -- who 'heard" it. The statue shed...
