Heede, Germany (1937 - 1940)
Our Lady of Heede, Queen of the Poor Souls in Purgatory

Summary

Mary appears to four children Margaret Gansferth, Greta
Gansferth, Anna Schulte, Susanna Bruns near their homes, in a meadow, and at other places. She was holding the Divine Child in her arms when she first appeared. Mary appeared to the children an undetermined number of times of which only three were recorded. After the children were forbidden by the Gestapo (and briefly arrested) to go to the place of the original apparition, Mary appeared to them in secret. Prayer, conversion, and the rosary were the primary messages.

Nov 1 1937

When 4 girls Anna Schulte, Greta and Maria Gauseforth and Susanna Bruns reported on November 1st 1937, that The Blessed Virgin had appeared to them with the Divine child in her arms, the news was received in village with predictable skepticism and amusement. It wasn’t until the girls shown a dramatic change in their way of life that villagers began to wonder. The girls switched from pleasures and amusements to long and fervent prayer, impatiently waiting for the hour when they would see the Heavenly Vision again. Nevertheless the Pastor and most of the villagers refused to believe in the apparitions for a long time but were finally won over. Crowds came to Heede when the news percolated to the surrounding towns and villages. But Hitler ruled Germany in those days and the Gestapo swiftly put a stop to this “superstitious nonsense”. The children were taken to a lunatic asylum and the pilgrimages forbidden. After a few weeks the children were released but forbidden to go near the place of ‘The Apparitions’.

Nov 3, 1940

The apparitions of Our Lady finally came to and end after 3 years

1945

It was only after wonderful cures occurred that the parish priests and other clergy supported the seers (forbidding public dance announced for October 21, 1945). The details of the various healings are not reported.

1945

New apparitions of Our Lord and the "angel of justice" began.