Alphonse was traveling
And the afternoon before his return, he had to pay a visit to a family friend and tried to excuse himself by leaving a note. But there was "something" that held him back
During the visit he began a Religious conversation with the friend of the Family who was Catholic and who told him about the Holy Virgin Mary and also gave him a medallion of "La Milagrosa" and a prayer. Alphonsus, a non-believer in the Holy Virgin Mary, took both objects to imply that this had no reason to exist. The fact is that, "something" made him take them
The next day with the trip completed and with the intention of leaving, his friend asks him to accompany him to a Church to ask for a responsory for a person he knew, and so he could appreciate the Art of the church.
Alphonse was visiting the church... and in the little chapel of the Holy Virgin Mary..., this happens to Alphonse that he himself narrates:
"The whole building disappeared from my sight, I saw a great glow and in the midst of that glow on the altar appeared to me upright, splendid, full of majesty and sweetness the Virgin Mary as it is painted on the medal and smiled at me, she did not say anything to me, but I understood everything"
This is how our friend Alphonse became St. Marie Alphonse Ratisbonne
A beautiful story that you can read in this link:
https://www.isfcc.org/the-conversion-of-alphonse-ratisbonne/
😀 and is that when Mary is in the Middle
everything starts well, mediates well and never ends 😀
Catechism of the Catholic Church click here
644 Even when faced with the reality of the risen Jesus the disciples are still doubtful, so impossible did the thing seem: they thought they were seeing a ghost. "In their joy they were still disbelieving and still wondering."506 Thomas will also experience the test of doubt and St. Matthew relates that during the risen Lord's last appearance in Galilee "some doubted."507 Therefore the hypothesis that the Resurrection was produced by the apostles' faith (or credulity) will not hold up. On the contrary their faith in the Resurrection was born, under the action of divine grace, from their direct experience of the reality of the risen Jesus.
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