Julia also often undergoes severe pains for the conversion of others and in reparation for abortions and other sins in the world. Several times, she received the Stigmata while suffering the pains of Crucifixion. She has been allowed to experience Eucharistic miracles. Many people, including priests witnessed that the Sacred Host Julia received was turning light brown first and then being covered with blood. Many people began firmly believing in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist because of these miracles.

The Blessed Mother's purpose in Naju is to awaken us, with her messages, from our spiritual complacency and insensitiveness so that we may truly practice the teachings in the Gospels and revitalize our traditional Catholic faith and devotion. She urges us to begin living a life of prayers, humility and love so that the devil's grip over our world may be broken and a new era of peace and love under the reign of Christ may begin. She is asking us to become little children of hers, completely consecrated to her Immaculate Heart. She has invited everyone to offer fervent prayers (especially the Holy Rosary) and sacrifices and to pray for and support the Holy Father, bishops and priests, as they are ministers of Christ.

For the purpose of defeating the proud and defiant fallen angel, God has chosen a loving mother, a humble handmaid of His, as He promised right after the fall of our first parents (Genesis 3:15). In the Virgin Mary chosen as the Mother of the Saviour, God is contrasting every perverted nature of the devil with her virtues, which are a reflection of His own infinite Love and Goodness. She is never an obstacle in our worshipping God, as many of us still mistakenly believe.

She is rather a concrete realization of God's Love and Mercy for us, always leading us to Him. The warmth of her motherly bosom, her loving and healing touch, her constant concern for us, and her ardent prayers for us are in reality God's gifts for us.

The devotion we have toward Mary should not be just a lip-service. As St. Louis De Montfort stated in his book: True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary (#44, #32), God has chosen her to be treasurer and dispensatrix of all His graces. All His graces and all His gifts pass by her hands ..... Since Mary has formed the Head of the predestined, Jesus Christ, it pertains to her to form also the members of the Head, who are the true Christians ... She has received from God a special power to nourish souls and to make them grow in Him.

St. Augustine and St. Louis De Montfort further said, she is the mould or the model according to which God forms the elect. One must be marked with Mary's seal and reproduce her characteristics to have a place among those loved by Our Lord.

Mary is also the helper to her Son Jesus in saving the world (the Co-Redemptrix) and a good example to us, as all of us are being called to participate in Christ's redemptive work through prayers and sufferings. In his encyclical: Jucunda Semper (Sept. 8, 1894), Leo XIII stated that Mary was associated with Jesus in the painful work of the redemption of mankind. St. Pius X calls her "the repairer of the fallen world" and continues to show how she was united to the redemptive work of her Son (Ad diem illum, Feb. 2, 1904).

An early example of Mary's intercession on our behalf was the miracle at the wedding in Cana. Even though it was still too early for Jesus to perform a public miracle, He did not refuse His Mother's request. In the 16th Century, the Catholic missionaries were not making much progress in evangelizing the Indians or ending the horrible practice of human sacrifices in Mexico. Through a special intervention by means of messages and a miraculous image of hers on Juan Diego's tilma, she obtained a conversion of almost 10 million Mexican Indians to the Catholic Faith.

Now in modern times when the devil has spread his influence all over the world and even infiltrated the Church, she seems to be determined to carry out and accomplish God's Plan of Salvation entrusted to her by God by defeating the devil once and for all. Her campaign against the devil in modern times began in Paris, France, in 1830, when she gave us the Miraculous Medal through St. Catherine Labouré. The images on the medal clearly describe her as the Woman with twelve shiny stars as her crown (Revelation 12), radiating the light of mercy upon us, and crushing the head of the serpent with her heel. The image of Mary's Immaculate Heart being pierced with a sword along with the Sacred Heart of Jesus being pressed by a crown of thorns reminds us of the role of the Blessed Mother as the Co-Redemptrix. The year: 1830 inscribed on the globe under Mary's feet marks the beginning of the modern Marian Age, at the end of which she will achieve the victory.

During the past one and half centuries since 1830, the Blessed Mother has appeared at Lourdes, Fatima and other places around the world, teaching and admonishing us with her messages, healing us spiritually and physically, and invigorating us with more graces so that we may fight more courageously in the battle against evil.

In this last part of the 20th Century, when the devil is leading humans to unprecedented moral decays and loss of faith, the Blessed Mother is giving us an amazing abundance of supernatural signs, messages and graces at a small, insignificant-looking city of Naju at the southwestern tip of the Korean peninsula. Monsignor Matias Perez Merino, a theologian from the Vatican, visited Naju in the summer of 1990 and said that Naju was the synthesis of all of the Marian messages. The Blessed Mother herself has called Korea her youngest child implying that her signs in Naju are the last ones (according to Julia). Several times Our Lady has predicted that her victory and light will spread to the entire world from this small land of Korea made fertile with the blood of so many martyrs.

The following is a summary of the major signs in Naju

700 days of tears. Our Lady shed tears and tears of blood for a total of exactly 700 days (between June 30, 1985 and January 14, 1992) through her statue owned by Julia Kim and her family in Naju. Samples of the tears of blood were tested in the medical laboratory of Seoul National University and were found to be human blood. Our Lady has said that she weeps constantly for every one of us because of our repeated failures to love God and love each other, because of numerous innocent babies being killed in their mothers' wombs, and because of the many souls who refuse to repent until the end and fall into eternal perdition.

700 days of fragrant oil. Fragrant oil flowed from the head of Our Lady's statue in Naju for 700 consecutive days (November 24, 1992 to October 23, 1994). While the oil was flowing from the statue, many people around the world received small pieces of cloth from Julia that had absorbed the oil. In addition to the fragrant oil, the Chapel in Naju frequently becomes filled with a powerful fragrance of roses and, sometimes, lilies. Julia herself has been given the grace of fragrance of roses surrounding her all the time. Our Lady has said that this fragrance represents her presence among us and her love and friendship for us.

Mystical sufferings and the Stigmata of Julia. Even before the weeping of Our Lady's statue began in 1985, Julia saw a vision of Jesus suffering and bleeding profusely on the Cross for the redemption of all the sinners. So moved by her love for the Lord, she asked Him to allow her a life of sufferings. This prayer was granted and Julia suffers severe pains frequently. She also received the Stigmata while suffering the pains of the Crucifixion. After a while, Julia prayed that the wounds become invisible, because they attract too much attention from others. This prayer was also granted. So, Julia continues suffering, but the wounds are not visible at this time.

Like the Blessed Mother's, Julia's life is a powerful example to all of us to participate in Our Lord's Work of redemption, as what was completed in the Head of the Mystical Body of Christ must also be accomplished in Its members (Colossians 1: 24).

Eucharistic Miracles. The foundation for our belief in the New Testament era is that God became man and dwells among us - the Incarnation of the Second Divine Person. While hidden from the eyes of the world, Christ, true God and true man, reveals Himself to us, teaches us, forgives our sins and nourishes us spiritually through His Church. Christ is present and at work in our world at this very moment through the Sacraments and the priesthood in the Church. He is also present through the grace in each of the souls who follow Him.

Especially, in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, the full person of Christ with His body, blood, soul and Divinity is present and alive. In the Eucharist, Jesus is hiding His glory and power behind the appearance of bread and wine, because He wants us to approach Him for our love for Him and not for any benefits we may get from His glory and power. As the shepherds and the Magi came and paid homage to the poor Baby lying in a manger at Bethlehem, Jesus wants us to be poor in spirit and pure in intentions when we come to Him.

The clouds of errors and loss of faith have covered the minds of many, however, and the awesome reality of Christ's Real Presence in the Eucharist is not clear to them any more. The practice of frequent Confessions in preparation for Holy Communion has also disappeared in many parishes. It is no surprise that this weakening of the belief in God's Incarnation has occurred simultaneously with the neglect toward the Blessed Mother, as she is the channel through which the Incarnation occurs and the Mother who nourishes and protects the Baby - the Incarnate Person. Whenever we desert the Blessed Mother, we are also going to lose the clear perception of God's Incarnation among us.

Now, it is no surprise again that the Blessed Mother, in Fatima, Garabandal, Betania and now in Naju, gives us most powerful signs to awaken us to the True Presence of her Son in the Blessed Sacrament. In addition to her messages, Our Lady has given us Eucharistic Miracles seven times so far through Julia in Naju. In the first six of them, the Sacred Host that Julia received during Mass turned into visible flesh and began bleeding in her mouth and this was witnessed by hundreds of people and was photographed and videotaped. The locations and dates of these miracles as well as the celebrants of the Mass are as follows:

(1) Holy Rosary Church in Naju on June 15, 1988

(2) Holy Rosary Church in Naju on May 16, 1991

(3) At Mass in a hotel room in Rome, Italy, on June 1, 1992 (Julia was in severe pains and was not able to go to church.)

(4) The church in Lanciano, Italy, on June 2, 1992

(5) Holy Rosary Church in Naju on September 24, 1994

(6) St. Anthony's Church in Kailua, Hawaii, November 2, 1994

(7) The Chapel in Naju on November 24, 1994.

(8) Naju Parish Church on June 30, 1995

(9) The Chapel in Naju, (Seven Sacred Hosts came down) on July 1, 1995

(10) The Chapel in Naju, (One of the even Sacred Hosts turned into Flesh and Blood in Julia's mouth) on July 2, 1995

(11) On the mountain near Naju on September 22, 1995

(12) Vatican City on October 31, 1995

(13) The Chapel in Naju on July 1, 1996

(14) Cathedral in Sibu, Malaysia on September 17, 1996

(15) Naju Parish Church on October 19, 1996

The 7th Eucharistic Miracle occurs in Naju for the whole Catholic Church

The miracle on November 24, 1994 was different from the previous ones and truly most amazing. The Apostolic Pro Nuncio in Korea, an Archbishop from the Vatican, came to Naju with Fr. Raymond Spies, Julia's spiritual director. He made it clear to Fr. Spies that he was visiting Naju not as a private pilgrim but as the official representative of the Holy Father.

The visit by the Apostolic Pro Nuncio had not been publicly announced, but there were seven priests and about 70 lay people gathered in the Chapel to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the beginning of the fragrant oil from Our Lady's statue in Naju on November 24, 1992. The Apostolic Pro Nuncio's visit, therefore, was a pleasant surprise to them. This visit was also a realization of the Blessed Mother's promise on October 23, 1994, the last day of the fragrant oil flowing from her statue in Naju, and also the day when Julia and her husband left for Canada and the U.S.A. to give testimony at the Marian Conferences in Toronto and Honolulu.

While the Apostolic Pro Nuncio, Julia and others were praying in the Chapel, the Blessed Mother gave messages to Julia and also gave us a most amazing miracle. First, Our Lady asked Julia to receive blessings from the Archbishop and Fr. Spies on her hands. Then, she had St. Michael the Archangel bring the Holy Eucharist to the Apostolic Pro Nuncio through Julia. As the Archbishop was representing the Holy Father, this miracle was actually intended for the Holy Father, John Paul II, and, therefore, the whole Catholic Church. This reminds us of the miracle in Guadeloupe four and a half centuries ago, because the miracle and the accompanying messages in Guadeloupe were also given to a bishop representing the Church.

The first Sacred Host that the Archangel brought was a large-size one, the kind priests use during Mass. The angel was not visible to the people in the Chapel except Julia, but everybody was able to see the Holy Eucharist suddenly appearing between Julia's fingers. The Host had images of a cross in the middle and two letters: "A" and "W", just as in the miraculous photograph that Our Lady gave us on June 27, 1993. The Host was already broken into two when Julia received It, with one half in Julia's right hand and the other half in her left hand. Julia fell on the floor because of a powerful light from above.

The Apostolic Pro Nuncio and Fr. Spies received the Sacred Host from Julia's hands and broke the Host into smaller pieces to give Communion to people in the Chapel who were in total amazement and awe. Even though it was just one Host, everyone in the Chapel received Communion. Some of them later testified that it was an experience that simply defied human description. The Apostolic Pro Nuncio and Fr. Spies put a piece of the Host in a box for preservation. Our Lady told Julia that the Sacred Host the Archangel brought was about to be consumed by a certain priest, but brought to the Chapel instead, because the priest was in the state of sin and Jesus could not live in him.

Then, Julia wanted to go to her house next door to write down Our Lady's messages for the Archbishop. As she was walking out of the Chapel supported by others because of her continuing pains, the Blessed Mother called her again in a hurry. Julia came back toward Our Lady's statue and held the hands of the Apostolic Pro Nuncio and Fr. Spies as the Blessed Mother requested. Our Lady asked Julia to receive the Holy Eucharist for the second time.

This time, the Host was smaller, the same as those lay people receive. Julia received this Sacred Host on her tongue. The Host was standing upright on Julia's tongue. The Archbishop picked up the Host. After showing the Host to people in the Chapel and some photos were taken, Fr. Spies received the Host from the Archbishop and put It in a pyx. He is preserving the Host at his residence and is expected to bring the Host back to Naju later for exposition in the Chapel so that pilgrims may pray before the Eucharist that was miraculously brought to us.

The Apostolic Pro Nuncio reviewed what had happened in Naju for the past ten years and was totally amazed. He was so overwhelmed with joy and hope that he was not able to sleep for the next three nights. In the mean time, Archbishop Victorinus Yoon of the Kwangju Archdiocese which covers the Naju Parish formed a committee to open the formal investigation process for Naju.