The two, at this point, have thought of adoption, deciding, however, to first make a path of consolidation of the couple: they were believers, but did not frequent the churches much. And so they started going to the Basilica del Santo. One day the man decided to confess to Father Francesco Ruffato. Husband and wife followed her suggestions and received the blessing together with the other sterile couples and asked for the grace of being able to become parents.

In the following days they went to Rome with the intention of seeing Pope Francis as well. When they returned, in the mailbox they found the messenger’s agenda and an image of Antonio, which they put in a drawer. A few days later the woman found out she was pregnant. “They did not believe it,” says Father Poiana. “The pregnancy test has seen them very happy. They immediately had the certainty that it was Sant’Antonio who sent him the child and that later, to make it clear that his intercession had been his, and not of the Holy Father, he had had his holy card in his mailbox … A few weeks ago Giovanni was born and now they will come to the Basilica with that little boy who has waited so long and now no longer hoped to have “.

Introducing the custom of celebrating a Mass for sterile couples, and for those who are already expecting a baby, it was Father Poiana, shortly after his inauguration.