[Five Spiritualities Testimony] Forgiving a Husband Who Left Me with Three Children and 300 Million KRW in Debt

✨ Finding Our Lady of Naju amid Financial Struggles,

Failures, and Deep Depression: Transformed Life of Faith!  ✨

I am Julianna Lee Yang-nim, born in 1961, residing in Naju, South Korea. I am grateful for the grace that has allowed me to live a healthy life without recurrence after being healed of colon cancer through repentance in Naju. 

In the past, I was extremely fond of worldly things. I invested a lot of money in swimming, yoga, the gym, aerobics, skincare, and massages in order to lose weight, and I enjoyed them greatly. Furthermore, I shamelessly dyed my hair yellow, applied excessive makeup, and adorned my ears with conspicuous dangling earrings that drew the attention of others. I indulged in a sense of extravagance, and only then did I feel satisfied. My heart was focused solely on physical things, while I was always miserly toward spiritual and heavenly matters. 

Then one day, my husband’s business failed, and he left home with another woman, leaving me with three children to care for and a debt of 300 million KRW. Probably my husband was involved financially with the gangsters in Mok-po; they came to my houseevery night threatening me with knives, demanding that I hand him over. 

I was overwhelmed by the pain of betrayal from my husband, the economic difficulties of an enormous debt of 300 million KRW, and the great amount of harassment, insults, and threats coming from the gangsters every night. Having few experiences in social life, I was unable to overcome all of this on my own. I was at a loss for how to live and constantly thought of death in lamentation and resentment. But I simply could not because it would have been too harsh on my young and innocent three children.

In that situation, after a year, I suddenly experienced severe stomach pain and went to Dong- ah Hospital in Kwangju, where I was told that colon cancer was suspected, and I was advised to go to a bigger hospital. At Jeonnam University Hospital, I was diagnosed with two 3 cmtumors and three 2 cm malignant tumors located in the transverse colon and the mesentery of the small intestine. I couldn't simply accept this, so I went to Seoul University Hospital, hoping it was a misdiagnosis, but the results were the same.

My surgery was scheduled for a month later, and during that month, I went to Gwangju parish to prepare for the end by confessing my sins and receiving the sacrament of the anointing of the sick while relying on painkillers to get by. Overwhelmed by severe pain, I began to pray at the Blessed Mother’s Chapel in Naju, feeling as if I would grasp at straws. Rather than praying for my own survival, I prayed for the grace to repent and be saved.

About 15 days later, while praying at the Blessed Mother’s Chapel in Naju, all the wrongdoings of my sinful life in the past unfolded before my eyes in a panoramic view like a movie. And I began to realize the great sin of wanting to commit suicide and the pride I had in believing I had lived well.

I asked the Lord and the Blessed Mother for forgiveness, pleading earnestly, “Blessed Mother! If I die now, I have nothing to offer. What can I do? What should I say when I go before the Lord?” With an ardent heart, clinging to the Lord and the Blessed Mother, I cried endlessly, endlessly shedding tears of repentance.

As I was lying face down in agony, there were five nuns from another city praying beside me who suddenly shook my shoulder and said, “Sister, a powerful fragrance of roses is coming from you!” Hearing these words, I responded with “Amen!” firmly believing that the Blessed Mother would heal me now. At that moment, the chest pain that had been so severe that I could barely breathe completely disappeared.

With the pain gone, I stopped taking painkillers and entrusted everything to the Blessed Mother of Naju, while drinking the Miraculous Water of Naju with prayers. When I returned to Seoul National University Hospital for a re-examination, the doctors were astonished to find that the malignant tumors had disappeared.

The doctors, unable to believe, conducted five or six follow-up examinations at one-month intervals and finally declared, “This is truly a miraculous event,” advising me that further visits were unnecessary. The doctor who treated me, a lapsed Catholic, was astonished by this miraculous phenomenon and expressed that it was truly a wonderful and miraculous event, saying he would return to Church. 

Since then, I have undergone annual health check-ups, and even after 22 years, I continue to live a healthy and joyful life. Through the grace of the Blessed Mother of Naju, both my soul and body were healed. As I learned in Naju, I forgave my husband and cared for his mother until her passing. I was also able to repay the tremendous debt of 300 million won that my husband had left behind. My three children have grown up well, and my daughter is now married, bringing me a grandchild. What else could this be but the incredible grace from the Blessed Mother of Naju?

Without Our Lady of Naju, I would have been consumed by sighs and resentment, hating my husband and heading down the path of destruction. However, by listening to the words of the Blessed Mother of Naju, I have been able to live a life filled with joy, love, peace, and gratitude. I thank Mama Julia, for always offering up her suffering so that even a great sinner like me, who only thought of suicide and death, could receive grace. I give all this glory to the Lord and the Blessed Mother, Who appeared and are present in Naju. 

Julianna Lee Yang-nim

Attachment
1. Attached are the medical reports before and after healing:
1) August 13, 1998 (Before Healing): Malignant tumor had infiltrated the transverse colon and small intestine mesentery

2) July 27, 2002 (After Healing): No abnormal findings

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