Then, the priest asked him who had sent him such news, to which Dominic replied that no one, but that he knew for sure. Don Bosco, who already knew of the boy’s surprising gifts, granted him permission and gave him money for the trip.
On September 12, 1856, when the boy arrived to see his mother in Mondonio, he realized that she was pregnant, but that she was suffering from severe pain. Domingo immediately hugged her tightly, kissed her and sat next to her to listen to her. Her mother asked her to go immediately to some neighbors. Domingo, of course, obeyed.
After a while the doctor arrived and after examining her he saw that the woman was recovered and looked healthy. While the doctor and some neighbors were preparing everything for her mother to give birth, a green ribbon was revealed around the woman’s neck that was attached to a piece of silk folded and sewn like a scapular. It was the present that Domingo had given her as a sign that the Virgin would be her company. Without any major setbacks, her sister Catalina was born that day.
Later, Domingo would ask his mother to keep the scapular and lend it to the women of the town whenever they needed it. So it was done; and many of them obtained particular graces for having worn the scapular of the Virgin.