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The Mother of God Appears to Vietnamese Woman in Coma, who then Converts to Orthodoxy

September 4, 2017 By Fr. John 6 Comments

The newly illumined Anna, with a cast still on her leg!

Fr. George Maximov, a Moscow priest who often serves on missionary trips throughout Asia, has posted on his Facebook page the words of a Vietnamese woman who converted to Orthodoxy after the Mother of God appeared to her.

The woman, Nguyen Thi Mai Anh, a former Buddhist living and working in V?ng Tàu, Vietnam, was baptized into Holy Orthodoxy on Holy Saturday this year.

She writes of “something incredible” happening in her life about a year ago: “I was lying in a coma in the hospital. During this time I saw a radiance, a bright light, and directly in front of me appeared the Virgin Mary Theotokos. She handed me a bottle of water and gave me to drink. As soon as I drank the water, the light and the Theotokos disappeared.”

“In the morning the next day,” she continues, “I suddenly came out of the coma after being unconscious for so long.” Nguyen survived, and she began to pray to the Lord Jesus Christ and His Mother for a speedy recovery, and decided she would become a Christian when she returned home.

“A few days later, another vision appeared to me in a dream, that there would be a man who would lead me to the Church, and that I would eat Bread there and drink Holy Water together with everyone, and walk around the church,” she continues.

After she was released and returned home, a friend came to her, bearing an icon of the Mother of God with the Savior. “I was incredibly happy, because it was the same image I had seen in my dream. I was very happy, and I told my friend about what I had seen in the dream, and he took me to an Orthodox Church where Russians pray in the 5th district of the city of V?ng Tàu, to meet the Lord and the Theotokos there,” Nguyen recalls.

The woman was later baptized in the same church and “born again under the protection of the Most-Holy Theotokos and by the grace of the Lord.”

“I am infinitely happy!” she exclaims, continuing, “Thanks to Thee, O Lord and to thee, O Theotokos, for my ‘second birth’ and the gift of the Fountain of Life!”

Fr. George notes that she broke her leg just before her Baptism, but this did not deter her. She was baptized with the name of Anna, and now reads prayers in the Vietnamese language during the services.

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  1. Tony says

    September 4, 2017 at 12:22 pm

    God be praised!

  2. Michael Bauman says

    September 4, 2017 at 1:42 pm

    Wow!

  3. Rudy Carrera says

    September 4, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    May God keep His daughter in good stead!

  4. Karen says

    September 22, 2017 at 11:41 am

    Beautiful! Undoubtedly, this women was being prayed for. Thanks be to God for His abundant mercy!

  5. Dogen says

    December 28, 2022 at 7:10 am

    I’m not convinced it was the Virgin Mary. Maybe it was…but the fact that no words were exchanged leaves this (like all mystical experiences) wide open to interpretation.
    She has given it an Orthodox interpretation…and that is fine.

  6. James says

    November 5, 2023 at 8:02 am

    Wow, this is amazing and inspiring. So happy for Anh. I will travel to Vung Tàu next 2024 and hope to visit this amazing Church.

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