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![]() ![]() And so I began my research.įirst, I ran into a jovial, 90-year-young friar named Fr. Francis, my work organizing pilgrimages, and my own prayer and Mass attendance at the Holy House, I know a number of friars and personnel who staff the basilica. Due to my membership in the Third Order of St. Since the 1920s, the basilica has been staffed by the Capuchin Franciscan friars. The Holy House of Loreto (the house of Mary of Nazareth) was transported to Italy in the 13th century likely by Crusaders returning to Europe, although tradition attributes the "Translation" miraculously to angels. Nonetheless, a number of people asked me if I would look into Tom Zimmer, and so I did. Further, my reaction was the same as the incredulous doctor: "Preisdent Trump will lead people back to God?" I thought to myself with eyebrow raised. Although I believe that God reveals his plans and messages in advance to his prophets, it is not always clear who his prophets are, or, when people speak as “prophets” whether or not they are true or false. Now, I have to admit that my first impression after watching this video was somewhere between skepticism and suspicion. ![]() Capoverdi says that he wanted to get this message out after he saw Donald Trump’s wife begin a political rally in Florida by beginning with the Our Father. ![]() Peter’s Holy Door after the Jubilee in order that Trump would receive blessings from the many Masses that would be said in the Vatican.įr. In fact, Zimmer was so convinced that Donald Trump would become a great spiritual leader of America that he wrote his name on a brick and had it placed in the reconstruction of St. “The millionaire playboy from New York?” asks the incredulous doctor. And that man would be none other than Donald J. Capoverdi fast forwards until a few weeks ago when he was talking to his old friend, the doctor, who said that back in the 1980s, Tom Zimmer had told him (the doctor) that he had received a “premonition” and that he (Tom) believed that a certain man would lead America back to God. He sat down next to him, introduced himself in English and had a very spiritual conversation. Capoverdi recounts in his video that after arriving in Rome, he indeed took a train up to Loreto and went inside the basilica where he found an elderly gentleman, hunched over, sitting on the floor next to the Holy House in prayer. He added that he was very prayerful and had written a book, “Pieta'” which had sold upwards of “ten million copies.”įr. He said this "hermit", an American layperson, had left everything behind in the US to live in Loreto as a kind of penitent, or hermit. He says that some seventeen years earlier, a friend of his - an Italian American doctor named Claudio Curran - told him that he just had to get up to Loreto on his upcoming trip to Rome to speak with a holy man there by the name of Tom Zimmer. Giacomo Capoverdi, recounts how he once met this holy man who living in Loreto. In the video, American diocesan priest from Providence, Rhode Island, Fr. ![]()
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