Assisi turned Marilla to song

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Assisi turned Marilla to song

SYDNEY VISIT: Irish singer Marilla Ness and husband Brian

By Damir Govorcin

Irish religious singer Marilla Ness never envisaged having a musical career until she exper-ienced a profound, life-changing experience on a trip to Italy in the 1990s.

“I had always had a soft spot for St Francis and on a visit to Assisi I visited the Portiuncola, the little church he built on the plain below the city,” she says.

“As I knelt before the Blessed Sacrament, I experienced an outpouring of prayer and a burning desire to do something for God.

“It was my total conversion back to Catholicism, and I asked God how I could serve him.”

Marilla returned to her home in Manchester, England, and decided to learn the guitar so she could join a musical ministry group.

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