Following the Pontiff’s advice, they are currently working on writing Jimena’s testimony and are awaiting a response from the Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal José Cobo Cano, whom they tried to contact a few months ago.
Regarding the reaction of the doctors, he says that the Holy Father “insisted that this type of medical comment, they admit it as valid in their processes of miracles and so on. Because, as he told him, it is very difficult for a doctor to pronounce the word ‘miracle’ in all his scientific knowledge.”
Jimena and the Virgin Mary
Jimena, who during this time has shared her testimony to small groups in Madrid, affirms that she now has “a lot of devotion” to the Virgin of the Snows, but confesses that she has always been united to the Virgin Mary: “I feel her close every day ”.
He also assures that he has “a special affection for her, because in the end, in everything that has happened to me, I have always relied a lot on the Virgin, especially because it seemed easier for me to hold on to the Rosary.”
“The Virgin, in the end, since she is an intercessor, the relationship that she has as a Mother with us seemed easier to me. I see her as the Mother that she is and that she appears, not physically, but she has winks or things in which she shows us all that she is already here.”
Her father emphasizes that Jimena has been able to understand that “she is not the protagonist of all this, but that she had a gift far above other people and that it is up to her to be generous and give it. But the protagonist in the end is the Virgin.”
“Since the miracle of August 5 last year, they ask us to join novenas for healing people and we join them all. But we do it anonymously, because I think it would be bad for people to think that Jimena has power. Another thing is that Jimena has an extraordinary faith and a very great inner life, but that belongs to his private life,” his father highlights.
He emphasizes “that it is a mistake to think that, suddenly, someone has power because they have received a gift. They are two very different things and mixing them is a mistake. I think that one of the beautiful things, which is also a grace of the Virgin, is being able to share her experience in personal and eyewitness testimonies so that other people come closer to the Lord. And he’s done. And the rest is pure superstition.”
The young woman’s father remembers that there are many miracles in the Gospel that have as recipients people whose names are never known. Also, he highlights that today there are many miracles and that “Jimena’s has been more notable because the Virgin wanted it.”
“You have to leave it to her. She (the Virgin Mary) is the one who takes us to all corners. It is impossible for us to consider, with a large dissemination budget, getting to where this story has reached,” she points out.
“The Eucharist is a much greater miracle”
For Jimena, “the Eucharist, in the end, is a much bigger miracle because it seems like it is hidden because it does not have, what do I know, rays falling from the sky or anything, but in the end it is God, who is the one who has allowed that I have recovered my sight and that we are all here, the one who comes down from heaven to put that in a piece of bread and that we receive it.”
“It seems to me that it is the moment in which we are closest to heaven here on earth, because in the end we are in union with God. So, I try to go to Mass whenever I can.”
A “new normal”
Jimena expresses with a smile that, before she regained her sight, “I had a list of books that I wanted to read. The return to normality has been a new normal in which I have done many things,” she says.
Furthermore, she says that in a few days she will make a pilgrimage again to Rome with her group of friends who were by her side during WYD.