Emma de Guzman

Who is Emma de Guzman?

Emma C. de Guzman is a Filipino Roman Catholic widowed laywoman, stigmatist and claimant Marian visionnaire. She is the co-founder of the Catholic lay group association La Pieta, dedicated to a Marian devotion under the title Mother of Love, Peace and Joy. Guzman claims to have first seen the Virgin Mary on the Feast of the Nativity of Mary in 1991.

She is reputedly notable for her alleged Marian visions under trance, particularly the golden dust which allegedly manifests on her face during her trances. She claims to have communicated with Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, various angels and souls seeking penitence and has been observed by various high ranking Filipino Catholic prelates, most notably recorded in photographs and live video apparitions. The group specifically seeks to promote prayer and peace to various nations through any particular Marian devotion.

The La Pieta prayer group, along with its apparition, stigmata, and miraculous events are currently unapproved, though pending investigation by the Holy See yet is openly tolerated and endorsed by various leading international bishops, more notably the former Apostolic Papal Nuncio to the Philippines, Archbishop Antonio Franco, Cardinal Jaime Lachica Sin, Cardinal Francis Eugene George due to full compliance and obeisance to Roman Catholic doctrine.