November 13, 1982 -- "It has been nearly three years now since one of the peasants from the area arrived communicating a message which he said he received from Mary in a series of dreams and apparitions... Because of the duty and obligation to protect the wholesome piety of the faithful and for the truth of those events, in my capacity as bishop of the area, I find an obligation to assure the authenticity of the events in order to be able to assist in discerning the true value of the alluded to message... The 'report' that we present retains the accurate content and language used by the individual who received the visions." Information cited from Dictionnaire Des Apparitions De La Vierge Marie by Rene Laurentin and Patrick Sbalchiero, Fayard, 2007. Varghese, Roy Abraham . God-Sent: A History of the Accredited Apparitions of Mary.Crossroad Publishing Company. New York 2000. |