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Our Lady of Guadeloupe -- Juan Diego, 55,
was walking down Tepeyac hill In Mexico City to go
to Mass on Saturday, December 9, 1531, when the
Blessed Virgin appeared and sent him to the
Bishop to have a temple built where she stood.
She was at the same place that evening and
Sunday evening to get the bishop's answer. The
Bishop was unsure of Diego, and asked him for a
sign from Mary, but didn't ask for a specific sign.
On Tuesday, the 12th, Mary again appeared to Juan
Diego, calling herself Holy Mary of Guadeloupe and
asked him again to go to the bishop. He asked her
for the sign the Bishop wanted. She told him to go
up to the rocks and gather roses. Although the time
of year was not growing season, and the place
rocky, he went and found roses. He put them in the
lap of his tilma and took them back to Mary. The
Holy Mother rearranged the roses herself, and told
him to go to the Bishop. Juan Diego went to the
Bishop and opened his tilma to let the roses fall
out. He was startled to see the bishop and his
attendants kneeling before him: the life size figure
of the Virgin Mother, just as he had described her,
was glowing on the tilma.
The tilma was made of either maguey, corn or
cactus, and is very thin. It should have deteriorated
in about 20 years, but is still intact today! Recent
scientific studies revealed that the reflection of a
man (Juan Diego) can be seen in the eyes of Mary
on the tilma. CLICK HERE for more information.
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Our Lady of Fatima -- The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of
God, appeared 6 times to 3 shepherd children; Lucy, Francisco and
Jacinta; between May 13 and October 13, 1917. She came to the
little village of Fatima which had remained faithful to the Catholic
Church during the recent persecutions by the government.
She told us that God had chosen to use Russia as the instrument
of chastisement to punish the whole world if we did not, by our
obedience, prayers and sacrifices, obtain the conversion of Russia
to the Catholic faith. She promised us, "If My requests are granted
Russia will be converted and there will be peace". But She also
warned us, "If My requests are not granted, Russia will spread her
errors throughout the world raising up wars and persecutions
against the Church, the good will be martyred, the Holy Father will
have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated." She has
told us that the whole world (the part surviving) will be enslaved by
the atheistic tyrants of Russia. Visit www.fatima.org/ for more
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Our Lady of Lourdes : In 1858, in the grotto
of Massabielle, near Lourdes in southern France,
Our Lady appeared 18 times to Bernadette
Soubirous, a young peasant girl. She revealed
herself as the Immaculate Conception, asked that
a chapel be built on the site of the vision, and told
the girl to drink from a fountain in the grotto. No
fountain was to be seen, but when Bernadette dug
at a spot designated by the apparition, a spring
began to flow. The water from this still flowing
spring has shown remarkable healing power,
though it contains no curative property that science
can identify. Lourdes has become the most
famous modern shrine of Our Lady. CLICK here for
more information!
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