Seeing with Your Mother's Eyes

Its 1949. Italy. The Second World War ended only a brief time ago, but it left the tracks of its
passing everywhere. Among these reminders are the live mines still buried here and there. It is a time of privation and much misery. The people work hard to find a solution, resolve the danger, and care for those who survive their blast.

Two farmers, young men, find a mine. There's no thinking twice: they set to disassembling it.

It explodes. The burst of sound immediately catches the attention of the family, who run in anguish to the fields, certain that they will find two young men annihilated.

But no, they are alive! Their hands and faces are badly injured, so they are transported to emergency. Here the doctors have little hope. Their eyes are irreparably damaged, they are blind. The mother of the two sons, however, can't believe. She cannot resign herself to this verdict: in the strength of the faith and heroic charity, she offers her own sight to the Immaculata. She asks that the light of her eyes be given to her sons.

And so it was. The mother went completely blind in only a short time, while the two sons recovered their sight!