Apparitions (1700 - 1799 A.D.)

1700

Germany

Visionary: Venerable Bartolomeo Holzhauser

ca. 1700

POPONGUINE (Senegal)

Visionary: a shaman

There was a historic and prodigious event where in front of a local shaman, an image of Our Lady fell from the breviary of a young French missionary. Collecting it from the sand, the shaman recognized in Our Lady the woman he that met the day before in the surrounding countryside .With him, he converted to Christianity all the people of the village.

1703

Murnau (Germany)

Title: Sorrowful Mother of God (Crying statue)

A statue of the Sorrowful Mother of God was seen repeatedly in tears. The Bishop of Augsburg confirmed this supernatural phenomenon after checking the veracity of the testimony and approved special devotional worship.

August 1705

Capurso (Italy)

Visionary: Father Dominic Tanzella
Title: The Madonna of the Well

The origin of the shrine dates back to August 1705. Life goes on freely, as in many small agricultural towns of Italy, without any extraordinary events, and there is nothing to foreshadow an event that will change the face of the town and make it known not only in Puglia, but also in the Christian world.

A priest of Capurso, Father Dominic Tanzella, in a serious health condition with doctors having diagnosed him with an incurable disease.

One night some unknown that August, Our Lady appears to the priest, telling him he would be healed if she drank water once the ancient well called "Santa Maria" and he vowed to erect a church with an adjoining convent for the Franciscan Friars . Confident in the words of Madonna, who appeared to him, the priest drinks the water of the well and heals instantly.

Kötschach (AUSTRIA)

Visionary: young sanctuary sacristan

Our Lady appeared to a young sanctuary sacristan and led him to worship her statue by remaining kneeling at his home for twelve hours. After this test of loyalty, she urged him to continue his church service. In addition, he promised his protection of that place, to the inhabitants and all the pilgrims who had come. On 29 April the same year in the night the bells began to ring. People, woke up suddenly from the noise, came and saw with wonder that the church was completely illuminated. No one could explain the origin of the miraculous light. The faithful, deeply moved, prayed for one night, then suddenly the light vanished.

BISCHWIND (GERMANY)

Visionary: soldier George Mittnacht
Title: Mary, Help of Christians

Mary blessed the soldier George Mittnacht with her appearance and helped him. George fought in the army of Prince Eugene against the Turks. He was taken prisoner, was sentenced to be thrown into boiling oil, and he prayed earnestly to the Mother of God, vowing to build a chapel in her honor if he could see his homeland again. The next day the soldier woke up on a lawn near Bischwind, fifty kilometers from Wurzburg. After a few years, he devoted himself to the building with his hands, a chapel dedicated to Mary, "Mary, Help of Christians."

July 5, 1708

Thyrnau (SLOVAKIA)

Visionary: St. Alexius of Edessa
Crying and sweating icon

The icon of Mary in the sanctuary of Thyrnau, during the plague, and tears began to sweat visibly. These phenomena were investigated by church authorities and carefully confirmed by thirty witnesses who saw the tears on the following dates: July 5, August 10 and 1, 1708. On the hundredth anniversary of the event, a copy of the portrait was the famous icon which is located in the church of St. Alexis in Rome. This icon was brought from Edessa, Syria, and Rome was known since the fourth century for the many miraculous events related to it. According to legend, the young Alexius, son of the patrician Eufemiano, was arranged by his parents to marry. The night before the wedding, he escaped and reached Edessa, where he lived for 17 years dedicating himself to God alone return to Rome, could be accommodated from his parents without revealing his true identity. He died leaving signs of great holiness. Only after his death, Alexius of Edessa was venerated as a saint, the church of St. Boniface on the Aventine was dedicated to him in the year 978.

FORET DE LA MADELEINE (FRANCE)

Visionary: St. Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort (1673-1716)

St. Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort (1673-1716) was an extraordinary mystic, prophet and apostle of the fervent Marian devotion. Its greatest merit is that he has introduced countless people to the love of the Blessed Mother of God and the practice of Marian devotion. Marian devotion of his inspiration presupposes two elements that combine in one body inseparable: the perfect practice of true veneration of Mary and deeper commitment to Jesus, ie the total consecration of themselves to Christ through daily rededication to Mary.

On June 5, 1700 Grignon was ordained priest. In 1701 he became a chaplain at the hospital for the poor of Poitiers of which, after various vicissitudes, was appointed director. From 1706 he devoted himself to parish missions for the people, his true vocation, and founded the Daughters of Divine Wisdom, a hospital dedicated to the Order of Most Blessed Virgin Mary. He was a missionary traveling throughout France, and during these trips was often accompanied by the appearance of a "Lady dressed in white." The apparition was seen by some believers. From the prayers of St. Louis Marie Grignon, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, is the profound influence of these apparitions. Because of the persecution of the Jansenists, who at that time dominated the public and ecclesiastical life, his writings for a long time could not move. Only much later, his treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin (Traité de la Sainte Vierge à la vraie devotion), which was written in 1842, was widespread. The complete works of Louis Grignon first spread to France and England, then across the German-speaking world, thanks to the publications of the Swiss publishing house Canisius. Grignon was beatified in 1888 and canonized by Pope Pius XII July 20, 1947. The encyclical Ad diem istum, written by Pope Pius X for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the declaration of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, all written in the spirit of Grignon de Montfort, has promoted the link between the cult of Mary and the modern apostolate. From careful investigation on the mystical Marian Grignon clear the relationship with that of Berulle and Henry Suso.

November 18, 1709

Zulia (Venezuela)

Title: Our Lady of Chiquinquira / La Chinita
Visionaries: Maria Cárdenas

An old lady named Maria Cárdenas made a living by washing other people's clothes, a job she did every morning at the shores of the lake. On November 18, 1709 she took a bulk of clothes, and as usual, went to the lake to start washing them. This old lady was at her chores when she saw a small wooden slab floating towards her. She picked it up thinking that it might be of some use.

When Cárdenas finished her work, she went home carrying the clothes, the wooden slab and a small vase with fresh water. She then placed the board on top of the vase, before noticing a small figure in the board but could not tell what it was. Feeling curious about this, she went directly to see what was happening and found the slab glowing with a bright light to later find the image of the Virgin of Chiquinquirá.

Surprised and filled with a strong emotion, Cárdenas immediately ran out of her house located on the 2nd avenue, screaming and shouting the words “Miracle! Miracle!” Her neighbors went where the woman was to find out that the apparition of the Virgin Mary was real. From that day on, the faith of the Zulians found their Queen in the “Chinita”. As it has been expressed by many people, “She is the way that leads to Jesus”.

Since that day the street where Cárdenas lived was renamed "El Milagro" which means Miracle in Spanish, and to this day it is one of the most important streets in the neighborhood of "El Saladillo" in the city of Maracaibo. To this day the wooden slab with the image on it can still be seen in the Basilica in Maracaibo.

Legend has it that the government decided that the wood with the image belonged in the capital city, Caracas. So they ordered it moved. As the soldiers following the order carried the image away from Maracaibo it got heavier and heavier until finally no one could lift it. They returned it to the Basilica of Maracaibo where it has remained with the belief that no one can remove it.

1710 and on

Ovada, Castellazzo, Italy

Visionary: St. Paul of the Cross (Paul Francis Danei, 1694-1775)

St. Paul of the Cross had a vision of our Lady in a black habit with the name Jesus and a cross in white on the chest. In the vision, the Blessed Virgin told him to found a religious order devoted to preaching the Passion of Christ. He later founded the Passionist Order.

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Paul of the Cross (Paul Francis Danei, 1694-1775) was sixteen when his brother fell into a river, Mary. appeared and saved them both from certain death by drowning. Three years later he was converted and received by the office of Madonna leaving the secular world to dedicate himself to the Lord Jesus Christ. In 1715 he enlisted in the Army of the Republic of Venice against the Turks to fight and die as a martyr, believing in this way to serve Christ and do the will of the Holy Virgin. But soon it became clear that, to accomplish the task entrusted to him by Mary, would have to go another way. He then retired for some time in solitude to devote to prayer and atonement and understanding his true path in the world at this time drew up a "rule". From his spiritual father, Francesco Arborio, bishop of Alexandria, received the black robe of atonement. Pope Benedict XIII allowed him to seek other brothers, but rejected the rule because too severe. Paul devoted himself to the care of the sick with his brother and was ordained priest in 1727. With some brothers retired to Monte Argentario, where he founded the first home of the Passionists. Benedict XIV approved a less severe form of the rule. During an apparition, Mary Paul explained to the meaning and nature of his pain and induced him to contemplate the sufferings of his Son. Through the spiritual schools of Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Francis de Sales and John Tauler, Paul developed a deep passion of the mystic, who through his sermons, also spread among the faithful and contemporary spiritually prepared. At his death the Order of the Passionists had 12 offices with over 200 members. Paul was beatified in 1863 and canonized in 1867.

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SLOWCZK (RUSSIA)

Visionary: a monk Lova

The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared on June 18th to the monk Lova, in the convent of Solowczkij, instructing him to build a church on the hill on which stood the convent and to consecrate to the crucifixion of Jesus She said: "This mountain will be named as Golgotha will be a place of indescribable torment and punishment." In 1928 in that place was built a political prison camp where tens of thousands of people died in the most terrible conditions.

Szent-ANTAL (HUNGARY)

Bleeding icon

In the Franciscan church of Szent-Antal, a portrait of Mary began to weep blood of emergency. The offices of the church, after careful examination of the phenomenon, agreed in 1716 the public worship of this Marian image.

PETERWARDEIN (SLOVAKIA)

Title: Our Lady of Snow (Mary with the protective mantle)

According to tradition, Mary would have extended her great mantle over the army of Prince Eugene and Prince Elector of Baden to make possible the victory of the Christians on the Turkish power. During a celebration, Prince Eugene commissioned the portrait of Most Holy Mary, Who had exhibited in the hospital the morning of the battle of the military, the church of Our Lady of Snow in Peterwardein. The painting was dedicated in eternal memory of the final expulsion of the Turks from Europe. Pope Clement XI arranged the introduction of the feast of the Holy Rosary and the spread of the Angelus, which for a long time, it was also called "Turkish prayer." Pope Callistus III introduced the prayer for daily recitation (you had to pray three times a day as a counterweight to the call of the muezzin of Islam). Peterwardein became an important pilgrimage site and the portrait of the Virgin "Mary of the Snow" (Mary with the protective mantle) was the object of devotional worship.

Oct 1, 1711

Valverde (italy)

Visionary: Paolo Ogna (8) and Francesco Pellizzari (11)

Aug 18, 1713 and Aug 20, 1714

Rubiana (italy)

Title: Madonna of Sorrows
Visionaries: Nicol Lorenzo

1714

Canada

Title: Our Lady of the Cape
Visionaries: Three priests

Aug 4, 1716

Pellestrina (Italy)

Title: Madonna of the Apparition
Visionary: Natalino Scarpa

1716

MERCATELLO SUL METAURO (Italy)

Visionary: St. Veronica Giuliani

January 1717

SAJOPALFALVA (HUNGARY)

Bleeding Icon

During the months of January and February, a portrait of the Virgin Mary placed in the church of Sajópàlfalva was seen weeping blood. The Bishop of Eger examined the supernatural phenomenon and, declaring its authenticity, gave his approval to this image of the Virgin Mary which became a special object of devotion.

1717

Lescure (France)

Visionary: John Paillé (shepherd)

October 1717

Sao Paulo (Brazil)

Title: Our Lady of Apparecida ("Our Lady who Appeared" - statue)
Visionaries: Domingos Garcia, Joco Alves, and Felipe Pedroso (three fishermen)
Feast Day: October 12

In October of 1717, Dom Pedro de Almedida, Count of Assumar, was on his way to the state of Minas Gerais from Sao Paulo. He would have to pass by Guarantinqueta, a small city in the Paraiba River valley. The people of Guarantinqueta decided to hold a great feast to honor the Count, and a lot of fish would be needed.

However, it was not the season for fish and the water seemed deserted. After many hours of catching nothing, the fishermen were very depressed. Among the fishermen were three men who always prayed to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception -- Domingos Garcia, Joco Alves, and Felipe Pedroso. Before going out to fish, they asked God to help then in this difficult task, to find enough fish at this time when no fish were available. Felipe knelt and prayed, along with his companions, "Mother of God and our Mother, we need to find fish!"

Just before they were ready to give up, Joco cast his net one more time near the Port of Itaguagu in hopes that they would find fish. However, they found a body of a statue! Joco called out in surprise, "Domingo! Felipe! Come and see what we have!" They cast the net one more time and brought up the head of the statue!

They very carefully washed the statue and saw that it was Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. They wrapped her in some cloths and continued to fish. Domingo commented, "We worked all night and have found no fish!"

Felipe had a proposition: "Let's continue to fish with faith in the Virgin Aparecida (who appeared)." From this moment on, the net became very full with fish. This was the first miracle of Our Lady of Aparecida.

It is not known how the small (less than three feet high) statue came to rest at the bottom of the river, but its artist is known, Frei Agostino de Jesus, a "carioca'' monk from Sao Paulo who created artistic clay sculptures.The image was made around 1650 and must have stayed submerged in the river for many years because it lost its original polychromy. The image is now a brilliant dark brown color, and is covered by a stiff mantle of richly embroidered thick cloth, allowing only her face and hands to be seen. She wears on her head the imperial crown with precious stones with which she was crowned by the Apostolic Nuncio in 1904. In 1930 Pope Pius XII proclaimed her principal patroness of Brazil.

Her feast on October 12 is a national holiday. Pope John Paul II visited the Virgin "Aparecida" in her much frequented sanctuary and gave it the title of Basilica. A few days before the visit someone got hold of the statue and threw it forcibly on the floor. Although the frail image was broken into many pieces, the loving and careful work of several artists put it together again and the Virgin, "Aparecida" returned to her niche in the Basilica.

Altenhohenau (Germany)

Visionary: Columba Weigl (1713-1783)

Apparitions to Columba WEigel, German dominican, right from childhood, on a consistent basis (at times daily). The visionary saw visions of Christ and the saints and received the stigmata on August 19, 1731. In 1774, she became the prioress of a convent.

Source: Imbert-Gourbeyre, 426

S.SEVERINO LUCANO (Italy)

Visionary: shepherd
Title: Madonna del Pollino

The origins of the sanctuary "Madonna del Pollino" (which derives its name from the mountains on the northern slopes of which rises on the border of Calabria and Lucania) can be traced back to 1700, with the Apparition of Our Lady "bathed in light, fair as the sun "to a pastor, and then to a local woman, which it pointed to a pool of water because you dissetasse and saw this in a cave nearby, a statue of the Virgin Mary covered with soil. Every year in late spring, devotees climb the nice little sanctuary, reachable only by foot (at a height of 1537 meters.), With a colorful procession carrying the statue of the Madonna from the Mother Church of San Severino.

Source: magazine "Madre di Dio", august 2005
http://www.mariadinazareth.it

Bad Rippoldsau (GERMANY)

Title: Mother of Sorrows (animated painting)
Witness: A mother

The mother of a blind girl petitioned the Virgin for healing her daughter. The devout woman knelt before a painting of the Pietà for seven consecutive days. The Most Holy Virgin moved with pity "came down from the portrait" and healed the girl. In the fourteenth century, more than two hundred prayers were answered In front of the Pieta, and there were many miraculous healings. In particular, the "Mother of Sorrows" healed sores, fever, gout, rheumatism and teeth.

BARWEILER (GERMANY)

Miraculous Statue

A group of girls adorned the church of Barweiler with flowers of lilies and placed some in the hand of the statue of Mary (Cornonated with the Child). These flowers, now withered, in September, returned to green petals and appeared just like fresh crops. The following year, the phenomenon was repeated. On the initiative of the Bishop of Trier, the case was carefully examined and confirmed it was of supernatural origin. The miraculous statue was closed in a reliquary with two bolts.

1727

GLOSBERG (GERMANY)

Bleeding Statue

A statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in late Gothic style, which from the beginning of the sixteenth century had been the object of veneration and devotional pilgrimage began to weep blood. This miraculous phenomenon was repeated three times. At first, the Ordinary of Bamberg forbade the pilgrimage then, under the insistent pressure of the multitudes of the faithful, he entrusted the care of pilgrims to the Franciscans.

May 14, 1729 and May 26, 1730

Montagnaga di Pinè (Trento)

Visionary: Domenica Targa (1699-1764), cowherd

Domenica Targa of Guardia, thirty years old, was busy supervising the cattle grazing,which suddenly, with no apparent visible reason, started running in all directions as if he were crazy. The shepherdess then began to cry out: "Mary, Jesus, help me." As soon as she uttered these words, the Virgin Mary appeared before her with a white veil on her head, and thus addressed her: "You called Jesus and Mary for help and they will help you ... Do you promised once again to visit Our Lady of Caravaggio? But do not go to Caravaggio! Go rather to the Feast of the Ascension of Christ in the chapel of St. Anne in Montagnaga. There you will find a portrait of the Blessed Virgin by Caravaggio. Kneel down and address your prayers with a sincere heart to Jesus and Mary, then you will see miraculous things. " Sunday shewent to the chapel of St. Anne in Montagnaga, while praying fervently, she again had an apparition of Mary. The robe of the Blessed Virgin radiated a golden light shining, crowned with a diadem on her head and gave off rays of clear light, even the Child Jesus, who was in his arms, he was dressed all in gold. In the right hand of the Madonna holding a crown, she said: "I am Mary, the Mother of the Lord. Please tell this apparition to the local priest. Do not be afraid! Nothing bad will happen to you. I will be with you. In my name you must announce that every year on this day is set up a feast. " Only a few believed the story and especially the priest showed himself very skeptical. In another appearance, the Virgin said on Sunday: "I chose this place as the throne of my Mercy. Those who care to pray there with living faith and grace will not return home empty-handed. Take care that a church be built for large mass flow to my devotees. " After other vicissitudes, in 1730, an ecclesiastical investigation was ordered on the case which resulted in a positive opinion. A sanctuary was built and consecrated in 1750. She led a life of deep Christian devotion and died in 1764.

MARY STEINBACH (GERMANY)

Crying statue

A statue of Mary in the ancient sanctuary of Allgäu began to cry, changed the color of the face and moves the pupils. Many also noted that the church, without any human intervention, it was often illuminated by a mysterious light. After a careful examination of the Ordinary of Augsburg recognized as a true the unexplained phenomenon of the eye movement. The miracle was attested by 71 witnesses.

1740

Rome (Italy)

Title: Madonna of Divine Love
Visionary: A wayfarer attacked by stray dogs

Neunkirchen (AUSTRIA)

Visionary: Joseph Locatelli (a patient)

In the area of Neunkirchen, the Holy Virgin appeared to a patient suffering from dropsy, Joseph Locatelli, and healed him.

MARIAKAMEND (HUNGARY)

Miraculous statue

Five girls saw a statue of Holy Mary in a cave. The wanted to make, but it could not be removed from that place. Also called a friend for help and when they repeated the attempt, the "statue" suddenly disappeared. The girls informed the ecclesiastical authority of the appearance, after reviewing the incident, in that place he built a small chapel in memory of the event.

September 21, 1745

Bruchhausen (GERMANY)

Title: Our Lady Refuge of Sinners (Crying Statue)

A wooden statue of 70 cm (representing Mary with the Christ Child) was kept in a closet behind the altar of the church of Bruchhausen. It was shown to the public only when it was worn by the girls in the sacramental processions. At the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in 1745 the statue was exhibited to the faithful; September 21 it began to weep. So there documenting the record of the time: "From both eyes saw drops fall like crystal, even for the substance to human tears." It was shown in the evaluation report of the phenomenon that until March 16, 1746, the statue was repeatedly tearing. More than one hundred eminent personalities confirmed the authenticity of the miraculous event, first and foremost, the archbishop of Cologne, Elector Clemens August, who worked for the statue to be prepared to become the object of devotional worship. The miraculous statue it is still revered as "Our Lady Refuge of Sinners."

Source: www.latheotokos.it

May 1745

CELLDÚMULK (HUNGARY)

Title: Our Lady of Mariazell (animated statue)
Witness: parish priest

The parish priest of the time, Janos Zichi, and over one hundred faithful saw the statue of Our Lady (a copy of the statue of Mariazell) come alive. Before this statue also arose many clearmiracles.

January 1747

Suyapa (Honduras)

Title: Our Lady of the Conception of Suyapa (statue)
Visionary: Alejandro Colindres, and Lorenzo Martinez (8)

The tiny image of Our Lady of the Conception of Suyapa was found by a humble young peasant on a Saturday in January 1747. Alejandro Colindres, and Lorenzo Martinez, an eight-year-old boy, were returning to the village of Suyapa, tired from working all day gathering corn. They were half way there when night fell as they reached the Piligüín ravine. This seemed to them like a good place to spend the night and they lay down on the hard ground. Right away Alejandro felt that something, apparently a stone, was preventing his finding a comfortable position for his back. In the dark, he picked it up and threw it far away. Strangely enough, on lying down again he felt the same discomfort, but--intrigued--this time he did not throw it, instead he put it away in his knapsack. At day break he discovered that the mysterious object was a charming small image of Our Lady carved in cedar wood.

Our Lady of Suyapa measures only six and a half centimeters. It is a very old carving, probably the work done with devotion by an amateur artist. Her angelic looks reflect the nobility of the native race. It is a dark image with an oval face and shoulder length straight hair: her tiny hands are joined together in a prayerful attitude. The original painted color of her robe is light pink, which now can be seen slightly, covered by a dark cloak trimmed with golden stars and adorned with valuable jewels. The object of great veneration on the part of the Honduran people, the image rests on a solid silver sphere, and appears surrounded by a circle of silver rays, which evoke 'the woman dressed by the sun' mentioned in the Book of Revelation.

In 1925, Pius XI declared Our Lady of Suyapa patroness of the Republic of Honduras, and February 3 was chosen as her feast day with proper Mass and office. The first shrine was blessed in 1780 and the first notable attested miracle, occurred in 1796. The present enormous church, with space for the multitude of pilgrims who visit Suyapa, was visited by John Paul II in 1983. In the land of the poor, this sanctuary of Santa Maria de Suyapa is located in one of the humblest parts of the city.

Source: http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/resources/engfour.html#hon

1747

BOIS-DE-LA ROCHE-EN Neant (FRANCE)

Visionary: Madeleine-Marie Morice (1736-1769)

Mary appeared to 11 year old Madeleine-Marie Morice (1736-1769) and explained the Lord's Prayer - first the meaning of the words "Thy kingdom come." In another apparition, the Virgin asked the girl we must ensure that an orphanage was founded (House of Providence). In this apparition the Blessed Virgin would have anticipated many sufferings thatshe would suffer, but she promised her personal protection. Our Lady dressed in blue appeared many more times to Madeleine. The girl left this earthly world in 1769.

POTSCHAIW (UKRAINE)

Visionaries: Turkish army

An apparition of Mary saved a convent from destruction at the hands of the Turks. As soon as the assailants saw a bright light before them, and then majestic figure of the Most Holy Virgin stood beforethem , they fled. In 1772 the icon was crowned in the presence of over one hundred thousand faithful.

Oct 1753

GIMIGLIANO (Italy)

Visionary: Pietro Gatto
Title: Madonna di Porto

1754

Guaitara Canyon (Colombia)

Title: Our Lady of Las Lajas
Visionary: Juana Maria Mueses de Quiñones

Juana Maria Mueses de Quiñones and her daughter Rosa, a deaf-mute from birth, were resting in a grotto, Guaitara near the river, between Ipiales and Potosi, near the equator. Rosa suddenly starts shouting: "Mama, look at this dark women with a little baby in its arms!" Her Mother did not see anything.

A few days later, Rosa knelt at the bottom of the grotto in front of a 'mysterious image of the Virgin and Child dressed with a pink robe with golden flowers and a white mantle decorated with stars, standing around 1.40 m high, painted on a flat stone. The Madonna holds a rosary in her right hand that she presents to St. Dominic who is kneeling at her right. Jesus gives a cord to St Francis who kneels on the left of Our Lady. Rays of light encircle the Mother and Child. According to an unknown source, Rosa, who died shortly thereafter, would be resurrected. On September 15th, 1754, a mass was celebrated at that place. On September 16, 1952, the image was solemly crowned.

Source: Mathiot, 106-107

April 19, 1759

MARIABESUYÚ (HUNGARY)

Visionary: John Fiedler (mason)

On the site where once stood a church of the Premonstratensian XII century, a new church was to be built in the eighteenth century. On the night of April 19, 1759 the mason John Fiedler had a dream: Mary predicted that the next day in the ruins of the collapsed church, exactly where the altar was, he would find something valuable. She also commanded the builder to put it on the newfound new altar so everyone could see. The next day the mason discovered the place indicated in the dream, a statue of ivory top 11 cm of the Mother of God, a masterpiece of the fourteenth century. The Cardinal Migazzi confirmed the discovery of the miraculous statue.

1769

France

Visionary: Marie Lenormand

1779

Bocca Pignone di Ripalta (Italy)

Title: Madonna della Ghianda (Madonnna of the Chestnuts)
Visionary: Domenico Malatesta

In 1778 and again the following year, the Virgin Mary appeared on a branch of a chestnut tree in Mouth pinion Ripalta, in the province of La Spezia, to three shepherd children near the ruins of a church of the twelfth century. The following days, other people have also seen the Blessed Virgin in the same place. The messages point to the need of humanity's conversion, the practice of the sacraments, meditation on the S. Scripture. The image of "Our Lady of the Chestnut" is very popular among believers in the region. According to some historical sources, it would, however, the representation of another Marian apparition took place in the late Middle Ages.

Source: http://www.latheotokos.it

1779

Sarov (Russia)

Visionary: St. Seraphim of Sarov

1783 - 1824

Dulmen, Westphalia (Germany)

Visionary: St. Anne Catherine Emmerich

1785

Maipú (Chile)

Title: Our Lady of Carmel (statue)

In the year 1785 Don Martin de Lecuna ordered an image of Our Lady of Carmel from a sculptor in Quito, whose worship and devotion have since been associated with the struggles for independence of the Chilean nation. On December 5, 1811, Generals José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins asked the Vicar of Santiago de Chile for a "Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving" for success in the struggle for independence.

On January 5, 1817, General José de San Martin placed his baton in the right hand of the image and solemnly named her Patroness of the Army of the Andes. On the eve of the battle of Chabuco, the army, led by O'Higgins proclaimed the Virgen of Carmel patroness and general of the Chilean armed forces. In 1818, as the Spanish forces were advancing, the people and their leaders crowded into the cathedral to place their prayers and trust at Our Lady's feet. They promised her to raise a church in her honor at the site where Chile's independence is signed: "In the very same place where the battle is waged and victory is won, a sanctuary will be raised to the Virgin of Carmel, Patroness and General of the Chilean armed forces, and the same magistrates who make this vow will lay the foundation in the very same site of her mercy, which will be that of her glory. "

That was why in the midst of the battle of Maipú, on April 5, General San Martin encouraged his army with the cry: "Our Patroness, the most Blessed Virgin of Carmel, will give us victory, and right here we will build the church we promised her to commemorate this triumph." Before the end of the year, the first stone of the first sanctuary was laid. The shrine was completed in 1892. The present church was completed in October, 1974. In 1923, at the request of the Chilean bishops, the Holy See proclaimed the Virgin of Carmel principal patroness of all Chileans, not just of the army and navy as she had been until then.

There are two Carmel images that Chileans especially venerate; the one at the National Shrine of Maipú, carved in Quito, Ecuador in 1785, and the one, made in France, at the Basilica of the Savior in Santiago de Chile, that was solemnly crowned in 1926. The liturgical feast of Chile's patroness is celebrated on the last Sunday of September.

BORDEAUX (FRANCE)

Visionary: Guillaume-Joseph Chaminade (1761-1850)

Guillaume-Joseph Chaminade (1761-1850) refused to swear allegiance to the constitution of the French Revolution, and for this he had to hide out in Bordeaux. In this city, the Holy Virgin appeared to him several times and delivered him from the danger of being discovered by soldiers. In 1797 he was exiled to Zaragoza and on his return home he founded the religious Order of the Marianists (SM) or brothers and sisters of Mary. The Order is dedicated to education (even universities in the U.S.). The basic rule of the Order is the consecration and devotion to Mary. Priests and lay people in the congregation have the same rights.

DOROSZLO (HUNGARY)

Visionary: Janos Zavloczki (blind man)

Janos Zavloczki was a devotee to the cult of Mary. One day he had an accident and became blind. The Blessed Virgin appeared to him and advised him to wash his eyes in a miraculous fountain. The fervent Christian, animated by the hope of being freed from this infirmity, immediately followed the indication of Mary and was healed. The news of the miracle spread quickly and caused a great sensation. First, a chapel was built then, given the large number of pilgrims, a church was erected.

January 17, 1797

ABSAM (AUSTRIA)

Miraculous Image
Witness: Rosina Puechner (18)

On January 17, 1797, a teenager, Rosina Puechner saw the glass of his window, an image of the Holy Virgin. After having contemplated for about an hour, Rosina rubbed the glass with the intent to remove it but it was impossible to erase. The phenomenon was carefully examined by an ecclesiastical commission, and finally was declared miraculous. The glass of the window with the image of Mary was brought into the church and remains exposed Absam before the pilgrims as a devotional object of particular devotion to Mary. The church was then called Maria Absam Sanctuary.

1798

LaVang (Vietnam)

Title: Our Lady of LaVang
Visionary: Villagers Quang Tri

Many Christians took refuge in the jungle near Quang Tri where they prepared themselves for martyrdom. Many people died from the weather, wildlife, sickness and starvation. One night while praying the rosary they were visited by an apparition of Our Blessed Mother dressed in pure white light holding a child in her arms, with two angels at her sides. She comforted them and told them to boil the leaves from the surrounding trees to use as medicine. She also told them that all those who came to this place to pray, would get their prayers heard and answered: "My children you begged and implored me in my name, I will preserve you from all dangers, and will I hear anyone here who prays."
All those who were present, including Buddhists, witnessed this miracle.

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