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May 17, 2024 · By Elisabetta Povoledo. Reporting from Vatican City. May 17, 2024. Leer en español. The Roman Catholic Church has long been vigilant when it comes to supernatural apparitions like professed...
May 17, 2024 · As supernatural claims flourish online, the Vatican revamps apparition rules for 1st time since 1978. Approved last month by Pope Francis, the rules officially take effect Sunday and offer...
- Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Our Lady of La Salette
- Our Lady of The Golden Heart
- Our Lady of Knock
- Our Lady of Fatima
- Our Lady of Lourdes
- Virgin of The Poor
- Our Lady of Happy Meetings
- Our Lady of The Miraculous Medal
- Our Lady of Hope
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Click herefor Our Lady’s messages One of the most well-known apparitions among the faithful and the secular world, Our Lady of Guadalupe, occurred in the sixteenth century to a widower and now saint, St. Juan Diego. She met him on Mount Tepeyacac, instructing him to get the bishop to build a church upon that mountain. To do this, she instructed Jua...
Click herefor Our Lady’s messages Our Lady of La Salette appeared only once, unlike many other Marian apparitions. Taking place in nineteenth-century France, it occurred when two children, Maximin and Melanie, were tending to their sheep. They stumbled upon a woman sitting with her face in her hands, crying. She spoke to the children about her desi...
Click herefor Our Lady’s messages Our Lady of Beauraing, also known as the Virgin of the Golden Heart, appeared thirty-three times to five children on a playground in the 1930s. She encouraged the children to “pray, pray, pray” for the conversion of sinners, and also desired a chapel to be built at the site, for people to go on pilgrimage. Our Lady...
This apparition is particularly interesting for many reasons. Not only was Mary present, but two other saints as well. In 1879, fifteen people saw an altar with a cross hanging above it. Upon the altar was a Paschal Lamb, and next to the altar was St. John the Evangelist, St. Joseph, and Mary. The apparitions occurred for two hours and the saints d...
Click herefor Our Lady’s messages Maybe the most well-known of all Marian Apparitions, Our Lady of Fatima appeared to three children, Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta, in early twentieth-century Portugal. Among many other messages, Our Lady identified herself as Our Lady of the Rosary, urging the children to pray the Rosaryfrequently, for the conversi...
Click herefor Our Lady’s messages Our Lady of Lourdes appeared eighteen times to St. Bernadette in a small grotto in France. She revealed herself as the Immaculate Conception and encouraged St. Bernadette to dedicate prayer and penance to the conversion of sinners. Over the course of the apparitions, Our Lady taught St. Bernadette a secret prayer t...
Click herefor Our Lady’s messages In a garden behind Mariette Beco’s family home, Mary appeared eight times to Mariette, who was eleven at the time. She identified herself as the Virgin of the Poor and promised to intercede for the poor and suffering. The apparitions happened just fifty miles away from the apparition of Our Lady of Beauraing, leadi...
Click herefor Our Lady’s messages Our Lady of Laus, also known as Our Lady of Happy Meetings, first appeared to Benoite when she was seventeen and continued to visit her throughout her life. Over the course of these appearances, Our Lady asked for a house to be built for priests, with the aim of drawing people into greater conversion, especially th...
Click herefor Our Lady’s messages Our Lady appeared to St. Catherine twice in the year 1830. The first time, Catherine was woken up by a “shining child” at her bed and told that Our Lady was waiting for her in the chapel. Catherine went to the chapel and observed at first that it was empty, but then, after hearing what she thought to be the rustlin...
Click herefor Our Lady’s messages During the Franco-Prussian War, Mary appeared to four children on the playground of a convent school in Pontmain, France. The first child to see her was Eugene, and when he tried to point the attention of the adults around him in the direction of Our Lady, none reported seeing her. However, the other three children...
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May 16, 2024 · News. Vatican to weigh in on the supernatural, Marian apparitions. This Friday, the Vatican will release a document with new norms for discerning Marian apparitions and other supernatural...
May 10, 2024 · VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith will publish its new norms for the discernment of apparitions and other supernatural phenomena May 17, the Vatican press office...
May 14, 2024 · Rome Newsroom, May 14, 2024 / 13:52 pm. Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández will unveil guidelines for discerning Marian apparitions and other supernatural phenomena on Friday, but it is not the...
