Once a month, Archbishop Milingo travels to the tiny town of Zocco, halfway between Brescia and Bergamo in northern Italy. He holds a couple hours of catechesis on Saturday morning, and then a healing Mass in the afternoon. He repeats the same on Sunday, always in a cinder-block warehouse in the town's industrial park. By the time Mass begins on Sunday afternoon, hundreds of cars and several buses have appeared from all over northern Italy. Some 200 people came from the small northern town on four buses.
Hours are all approximate.
But people wait patiently, many of them praying the Rosary for the third or fourth time that day. Lots of people have rosaries draped around their necks, others have them wrapped around their wrists. Mass begins with the archbishop walking through the aisles, sprinkling holy water left and right. No sooner does he walk up the right aisle than three women in that area immediately go into convulsions. It takes four men to hold down one, three another and two the third.