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Pierina Gilli, the Italian visionary of Our Lady Rosa Mystica.. Pierina Gilli (August 3, 1911 – January 12, 1991), was an Italian visionary who claimed to receive apparitions and messages from the Virgin Mary in 1947 and 1966. [1]
A distinction is sometimes made between apparitions that are "Vatican approved" and those that are not. However, by the norms of Normae Congregationis, the only formal mechanisms for Holy See approval of an apparition would be the pope approving an apparition that had occurred in the Diocese of Rome, or the pope approving an apparition against the will of the local bishop, neither of which has ...
The three apparitions of Our Lady of Champion to Adele Brise were approved by Bishop David Ricken.. It remains to me now, the Twelfth Bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay and the lowliest of the servants of Mary, to declare with moral certainty and in accord with the norms of the Church that the events, apparitions and locutions given to Adele Brise in October of 1859 do exhibit the substance of ...
The Holy See has, at times, reversed its position on some visions. In 1931 Faustina Kowalska reported visions of a conversation with Jesus when she was a Polish nun. This resulted in the Chaplet of Divine Mercy as a prayer and later an institution which was condemned by the Holy See in 1958. However, further investigation resulted in her ...
Slavko Barbarić's statue in Medjugorje. Slavko Barbarić (11 March 1946 – 24 November 2000) was a Herzegovinian Franciscan Catholic priest and friar involved in the alleged Marian apparitions in Medjugorje, serving as a spiritual director of the alleged seers from 1984 until he died in 2000.
We have also called on science, and we remain convinced that the Apparitions are supernatural and divine, and that by consequence, what Soubirous saw was the Most Blessed Virgin. Our convictions are based on the testimony of Soubirous, but above all on the things that have happened, things which can be nothing other than divine intervention. [20]
A Marian apparition is a reported supernatural appearance by Mary the mother of Jesus, or a series of related such appearances during a period of time.. In the Catholic Church, in order for a reported appearance to be classified as a Marian apparition, the person or persons who claim to see Mary (the "seers") must claim that they see her visually located in their environment. [1]
Tomislav Vlašić (born 16 January 1942) [2] is the leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Whole Universe seated in Italy.He is best known for being a former spiritual director of the alleged seers of the Marian apparitions in Medjugorje.