MONEY-MAD House of Prayer boss Christina Gallagher has found a
picture perfect way of raising cash.
The self-proclaimed visionary
claims that a painting of the Virgin Mary on sale at the controversial
centre on Achill Island has miraculous powers.
She insists that everyone
should buy one – and it will save them from a violent death in the
coming Armageddon. And the price of salvation?
A heart stopping €250 for
each picture. Just to make sure nobody gets the painting on the cheap,
Gallagher’s website insists that only the large, framed version has this
astonishing power.
Smaller postcard pictures of the Virgin Mary above a
bed of roses would not have the same effect.
The website warns: “It is
important to note that the image of Our Lady referred to, is the framed
picture which has been hand-made in three dimensions.
Sales
“This is the picture Our Lady pointed to [in an alleged vision to
Gallagher] when she made the promise.
“These pictures are available ONLY
from Our Lady Queen of Peace House of Prayer in Achill and in Texas.”
Gallagher first claimed the picture had supernatural powers last year.
But now her House of Prayer website is heavily promoting sales.
Gallagher claims the Virgin Mary told her: “Those who venerate me by
means of this picture in their homes and pray the rosary (daily) will be
spared completely the calamity which will take place during the
purification just as protection was given at the time of the Passover
Angel in Egypt.”
Jesus was also promoting the painting, according to the
57-year-old Mayo grandmother. She claims he appeared to her in a vision
while she was touring America in March this year.
He allegedly said: “I
call you to ensure that every home have the picture of my mother with
the great promise I have given her (of protection). Pray before this
picture…. it will be a means of great protection for you.”
He supposedly
said those who rejected “my poor messenger” (Gallagher) and her Houses
of Prayer would suffer his wrath. Gallagher had been “persecuted” and
people should look after her and “take care of her every need.”
They
should also be happy to give money to the Houses of Prayer because “your
money will soon be of little use to you.”
In reality, Christina
Gallagher needs little looking after as readers of the Sunday World will
know.
Over the past three years we have exposed her astonishing millionaire
lifestyle and her string of luxury homes. Just two months ago we
uncovered her secret £2 million mansion in England which boasts its own
lake, indoor swimming pool and seven-person hot-tub.
Demanding
Equally impressive is her Dublin home, a fabulous €4 million mansion in
plush Malahide, north County Dublin.
The self-proclaimed holy woman, who
does not work and has no formal income, owns or bought for her family
four other stunning homes in Co Mayo.
Last year we revealed how she was
demanding money from her followers to build bomb shelters across
America. She also planned an underground bunker in Ireland saying it had
been ordered by God to protect her and her devotees on Judgement Day.
The Mayo mystic also threatened elderly followers with eternal damnation
if they had money and refused to hand it over for “Our Lady’s cause.”
She has also been condemned for other fund raising schemes such as
selling bricks for €50 each and a bead for an “endless rosary” for €50.
The Sunday World launched its investigation into Gallagher’s finances in
2008 when we discovered American fund raisers had told followers that
the supposed holy woman wanted “cash only” from now on and no more
cheques.