Gisella Cardia and her husband Gianni they sent to court for aggravated fraud. There “the seer of Trevignano”whose real name is Maria Giuseppa Scarpulla, claims to have received messages from Madonna for approximately ten years. Thus, the woman was able to build a kind of rural cult around her clairvoyance, namely an open space in the hills of Trevignano where a statue of the Madonna was placed there for worship. However, the wife and husband have been targeted by investigators for several years. Specifically, according to the prosecutor, they allegedly obtained around 300 thousand euros from the faithful through fraud, bragging apparitions, future disasters, miracles, and even “bloody screams” from the statue (blood that ultimately belonged to Cardia ed.).
A cult was born in Trevignano in 2017 that has gathered thousands of people physically but still it was never recognized by the Catholic Church. In addition, according to the allegations, the money received from Cardia’s devotees would be used by them to purchase the land where the holy statue was placed, small chairs and plastic huts for shelter from the hot sun and rain, as well as other agricultural land in the area, some renovations to Cardia’s house and even a car.
