Teresa Musco
The house of Teresa Musco
Traditionally in September there is a Mass in suffrage of Teresa Musco, mystic caiatina, whose house is located a few meters from the church, in one of the alleys characteristic of Caiazzo.
She was born in Caiazzo on 7 June 1943 and died at the age of 33 on 19 August 1976.
Since childhood the little girl begins her troubled journey of faith and suffering. During his life he had visions of Jesus, Our Lady, the Angel Gabriel and Padre Pio.
She knew the psychological violence of the father-master, the humble conditions of an honest family of workers, from an early age the young woman was used to taking care of the house, the brothers and the donkey of the family.
Teresa, thanks to mysterious divine interventions, found sums of money with which she helped her mother and brothers. Her father treated her harshly and even chased her out of the house, accusing her of being a thief and a liar.
She also knew the suffering of the Passion of Christ: from the age of 25 years her body carried the stigmata on her hands at the feet and the wound in her side, ‘the five roses’ that Our Lady revealed would come as a gift to Teresa, to be ever closer to her heavenly husband.
Our Lady who often appeared to her in a vision, with whom Teresa spoke in ancient Aramaic, one day pushed her to write ‘my daughter, offer, suffer and keep silent’ dictates that she followed throughout her life with modesty, strong faith.
In his diary, where he noted the meetings, words and episodes of which he was a witness and protagonist, he also writes ‘ God only for the end…Jesus for the model…Mary for guidance…the Angel for help…I always in sacrifice.’
In his life he often passed through hospitals, due to abdominal pain, a swollen knee and then from a certain point fever and painful wounds of Christ’s Calvary.
At the age of 20 she received for the first time the visit of the friar of Pietralcina, endowed with the gift of bilocation (being in two places at once), which she describes as follows: ‘the white-bearded monk continues to bring Jesus, every day: there is a place to love and a scent of roses surrounds me’.
In the last years of her life, at her home in Caserta, where she found refuge after being driven away by her father, the statues, the holy images began to tear blood.
The process of beatification has not yet ended, the communities of Caiatina and Caserta have been waiting for many years.
In 1993 the Teresa Musco Foundation was founded in Caserta, with its website, which aims to commemorate and make known the life and works of mysticism and promote the canonization.