GARABANDAL AND THE GREAT MIRACLE
by Jim Dunning
(This article was originally published in "Irelands Own" magazine. The webmaster would like to gratefully thank the author, Mr. Jim Dunning, for his kind permission in reprinting it here.)
by Jim Dunning
(This article was originally published in "Irelands Own" magazine. The webmaster would like to gratefully thank the author, Mr. Jim Dunning, for his kind permission in reprinting it here.)
Additional Editors note: Neither the local Bishops of Santander (both past and present) nor Rome have ever condemned Garabandal. Neither however has it been approved. So, to correctly summarise the Church's position on Garabandal it would be correct to say that the Church has not yet made any definitive pronouncement regarding Garabandal. The local Bishop has ruled "Non-constat de supernaturalitate" which literally means that it is not certain that the events are of supernatural origin, or in other words, the supernatural origin has not been established. With such a ruling, the events in question are still open to eventual recognition as being authentic or can be judged as not authentic.In fact the Bishop of Santander, Bishop Juan Antonio del, who in 1992 had juristiction over Garabandal unequivically stated:"The previous bishops did not admit that the apparitions were supernatural, but to condemn them, no, that word has never been used.")
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The Vatican has not given official recognition to the apparitions that occurred at Garabandal. There is nothing sinister about this, since the Church has always erred on the side of prudence, and it may be that its attentions have been focused on Medugorje where apparitions are said to continue to occur. The established policy is to rely on the advice given by bishops who have a responsibility to check on what is going on in local areas and make their own recommendations. It is perhaps unfortunate that some bishops have seen the reports of apparitions as a challenge to their own authority and therefore something to be vigorously opposed.
It has to be admitted that the apparitions at Garabandal have caused more controversy than similar events elsewhere. There are parallels to be seen, but also many differences. If one compares Garabandal with Fatima, for instance, at both places Our Lady chose to appear to young children and in each case selected one of the group to be the major player. At Fatima it was Lucia dos Santos, at Garabandal, Conchita Gonzalez.
Lucia was given ‘secrets’, to be divulged at varying dates, whereas Conchita was told of a great Miracle that would take place at a specified date in the future, a date she could only divulge eight days before it was to occur. She was allowed to reveal that it would take place on a Thursday at 8.30 in the evening on the feast of a martyr dedicated to the Holy Eucharist. It would be visible to everyone in the area of Garabandal at the time and it could be photographed and televised, but not touched. Moreover, a permanent sign of the Miracle would remain in the pine grove where the first apparitions had taken place in June, 1961.
This contrasts, of course, with the famous ‘Miracle of the Sun’ which occurred at Fatima in October, 1917, before a crowd of more than 70,000 people. It lasted for only a matter of minutes. Significantly, television did not exist at that time, communications generally were limited during the first World War, and the event was soon forgotten.
The ‘Great Miracle’ was not the only prophecy received at Garabandal. Two other future events were also announced. One concerned a ‘warning’, the other the threat of a ‘chastisement’ if the warning were to be ignored. Naturally, there were those who poured scorn on such reported revelations. And just as Lucia had urged Our Lady to produce a miracle to prove that she herself was telling the truth, so did Conchita and her companions plead with their heavenly Mother to create a miracle that would justify their reports.
They had to wait almost a year before their pleas were answered. In June, 1962, while their parish priest was temporarily absent, they received Communion ‘invisibly’ from an angel. Onlookers witnessed them opening their mouths, but did not see the hosts. On the 22nd June the angel advised Conchita that in her case the host would be made visible for all to see. She responded that this would be a ‘milagrucu,’ a tiny miracle, which caused the angel to laugh. Our Lady confirmed the angel’s promise and named the date when this would happen as the 18th July. Conchita announced this news to the people of the village on the 2nd July, which resulted in several thousand people crowding into Garabandal on the 18th to witness the event.
Conchita’s mother had asked a friend named Pepe Diez to accompany and protect her daughter from the crowd. This he did and late that night was rewarded by seeing a ‘neat, precise and well-formed Host’ appear on her tongue. It remained visible for about three minutes, during which she remained kneeling on the ground in a state of ecstasy. Others in the crowd saw the same thing and reported that the host increased in brightness as they watched. The event was both filmed and photographed.
The predicted ‘Warning’ related to an urgent plea from our heavenly Mother for a general conversion and a turning away from sin. When Our Lady appeared to the four girls for the third time on 6th July, 1961, she gave them a message which was to be announced publicly on 18th October.
Since the diocesan commission set up by the Bishop of Santander to investigate the apparitions objected to the girls reading out such a message from the steps of the church, the parish priest, Fr. Valentin Marichalar, undertook to read it out for them at the pines to an assembled crowd of about five thousand. He paraphrased the Virgin’s message as follows : ‘We must make many sacrifices, perform much penance and visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently. But first we must lead good lives. If we do not, a chastisement will befall us. The cup is already filling up and if we do not change, a very great chastisement will come upon us.’
The nature of the chastisement was not revealed at the time, but the following year, on 19th and 20th June, 1962, the girls experienced two frightening visions which caused them to cry out in terror. Unlike the children of Fatima, they did not receive a brief vision of Hell, but one of the girls, Mari Loli, gave a vivid description of what happened. She said : ‘We were absolutely terrified. I cannot find words to explain it… We saw the rivers turn to blood. Fire was falling from heaven. And something worse still, which I cannot reveal at this time.’
A second message, conveyed to Conchita in 1965, spoke of a further warning, which would be the last since the earlier one had been ignored. It declared that the cup which had been filling up was now overflowing. There was some criticism of the clergy. Too little importance was being attached to the Eucharist. All would have to strive to turn away the wrath of God. If they asked God’s forgiveness with sincere hearts He would pardon them. Mary loved them very much and did not want to see them condemned. If they prayed sincerely their requests for mercy would be granted. They should make more sacrifices and think about the passion of Jesus.
In the autumn of 1965 Conchita gave notice of an event that was yet to come. It would amount to a form of chastisement that could be seen as a final warning from God. She said that although it would be short-lived and cause mental rather than physical suffering, ‘this experience will involve every person in the world…It will be like an interior realisation of our sins. Believers, as well as unbelievers, wherever they are at the time, will see and feel it.’
This warning would precede the Great Miracle (probably by about a year, according to Mari Loli), but if people did not convert after these events God would send a Chastisement proportional in its severity to the severity of the sins of the world. This, one imagines, was reflected in the visions of the girls when they reported being terrified.
At an early stage of the apparitions the Blessed Virgin advised the four girls that the time would come when they would deny these experiences and contradict each other. Thus, when they began to issue their denials in the spring of 1963, it came as no surprise to believers who saw this merely as the fulfilllment of the virgin’s prophecy. Later, Conchita, Mari Loli and Jacinta ‘returned to reality’ and reaffirmed their supernatural experiences, while Mari Cruz continued to deny them.
Before that happened, however, the Bishop of Santander gratefully accepted the retractions of the girls, regretting the encouragement they had been given. He ended by saying that the words of the Gospel, the Pope, the Councils and the ordinary magisterium of the Church were the only reliable means of transmission for the ‘real messages from heaven.’ This statement infuriated supporters of the apparitions. As Sandral Zindars-Swartz recounts in her comprehensive coverage of the story of Garabandal, ‘Encountering Mary’, the supporters criticised members of the Bishop’s Commission for not investigating the matter thoroughly, and in some cases failing to even visit the area. The parish priest of Garabandal was reportedly offered a holiday during the investigation so that he would not be able to influence the outcome! As Canon Porro, a member of the clergy supporting the believers, put it : ‘This is the absurdity of it all, that five commissioners should be infallible, whereas thousands of others must admit to being ignorant, deluded or insane.’
In the case of Garabandal, the importance of the evidence of witnesses cannot be overstated. Testimonies have been, and still are, provided by them of the extraordinary behaviour of the four seers. They tell of how, during their ecstasies, their faces were transformed, becoming serene, happy and beautiful. Moreover, they became so heavy that even strong men could not lift them off the ground. Doctors who examined them while they were in these states tried pinching and pricking them with pins without producing any reaction, though the marks remained on their legs afterwards. Many of the onlookers were amazed at the speed with which the girls moved when making their way to the site of the apparition. Eighteen-year-old boys accustomed to running up steep mountain paths could not keep up with them. Nor did the girls ever perspire or show signs of being out of breath.
Further proof that the girls were not guilty of collusion, whereby they might have agreed on what they saw or heard, is provided by their description of the interior ‘calls’ they reported receiving whenever the Blessed Virgin was about to appear. The truth of their claim was tested by physically separating them to discover whether they all received their ‘calls’ simultaneously. Invariably, they all turned up at the site of the apparition at the same time.
It remains to be seen whether the predictions of the main character, Conchita, are fulfilled. There is not much time. She is over the age of sixty, living in America with her children. Also living in America is a blind man by the name of Joey Lomangino. According to Conchita, Our Lady promised that his sight would be restored on the day of the Great Miracle. Joey is already over eighty years of age.
Let us hope he will not be disappointed.
Click here to go to Part 1 of this article, Fr. Luis Andreu -The Priest who died of joy
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Bibliography:
-'Encountering Mary’ by Sandral Zimdars-Swartz
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[Editors note: The alleged heavenly apparitions at Garabandal referred to in this article have not thusfar been officially approved or disapproved by the Catholic church, therefore Catholics are free to discern and form their own judgements concerning them.]
The Vatican has not given official recognition to the apparitions that occurred at Garabandal. There is nothing sinister about this, since the Church has always erred on the side of prudence, and it may be that its attentions have been focused on Medugorje where apparitions are said to continue to occur. The established policy is to rely on the advice given by bishops who have a responsibility to check on what is going on in local areas and make their own recommendations. It is perhaps unfortunate that some bishops have seen the reports of apparitions as a challenge to their own authority and therefore something to be vigorously opposed.
It has to be admitted that the apparitions at Garabandal have caused more controversy than similar events elsewhere. There are parallels to be seen, but also many differences. If one compares Garabandal with Fatima, for instance, at both places Our Lady chose to appear to young children and in each case selected one of the group to be the major player. At Fatima it was Lucia dos Santos, at Garabandal, Conchita Gonzalez.
Lucia was given ‘secrets’, to be divulged at varying dates, whereas Conchita was told of a great Miracle that would take place at a specified date in the future, a date she could only divulge eight days before it was to occur. She was allowed to reveal that it would take place on a Thursday at 8.30 in the evening on the feast of a martyr dedicated to the Holy Eucharist. It would be visible to everyone in the area of Garabandal at the time and it could be photographed and televised, but not touched. Moreover, a permanent sign of the Miracle would remain in the pine grove where the first apparitions had taken place in June, 1961.
This contrasts, of course, with the famous ‘Miracle of the Sun’ which occurred at Fatima in October, 1917, before a crowd of more than 70,000 people. It lasted for only a matter of minutes. Significantly, television did not exist at that time, communications generally were limited during the first World War, and the event was soon forgotten.
The ‘Great Miracle’ was not the only prophecy received at Garabandal. Two other future events were also announced. One concerned a ‘warning’, the other the threat of a ‘chastisement’ if the warning were to be ignored. Naturally, there were those who poured scorn on such reported revelations. And just as Lucia had urged Our Lady to produce a miracle to prove that she herself was telling the truth, so did Conchita and her companions plead with their heavenly Mother to create a miracle that would justify their reports.
They had to wait almost a year before their pleas were answered. In June, 1962, while their parish priest was temporarily absent, they received Communion ‘invisibly’ from an angel. Onlookers witnessed them opening their mouths, but did not see the hosts. On the 22nd June the angel advised Conchita that in her case the host would be made visible for all to see. She responded that this would be a ‘milagrucu,’ a tiny miracle, which caused the angel to laugh. Our Lady confirmed the angel’s promise and named the date when this would happen as the 18th July. Conchita announced this news to the people of the village on the 2nd July, which resulted in several thousand people crowding into Garabandal on the 18th to witness the event.
Conchita’s mother had asked a friend named Pepe Diez to accompany and protect her daughter from the crowd. This he did and late that night was rewarded by seeing a ‘neat, precise and well-formed Host’ appear on her tongue. It remained visible for about three minutes, during which she remained kneeling on the ground in a state of ecstasy. Others in the crowd saw the same thing and reported that the host increased in brightness as they watched. The event was both filmed and photographed.The predicted ‘Warning’ related to an urgent plea from our heavenly Mother for a general conversion and a turning away from sin. When Our Lady appeared to the four girls for the third time on 6th July, 1961, she gave them a message which was to be announced publicly on 18th October.
Since the diocesan commission set up by the Bishop of Santander to investigate the apparitions objected to the girls reading out such a message from the steps of the church, the parish priest, Fr. Valentin Marichalar, undertook to read it out for them at the pines to an assembled crowd of about five thousand. He paraphrased the Virgin’s message as follows : ‘We must make many sacrifices, perform much penance and visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently. But first we must lead good lives. If we do not, a chastisement will befall us. The cup is already filling up and if we do not change, a very great chastisement will come upon us.’
The nature of the chastisement was not revealed at the time, but the following year, on 19th and 20th June, 1962, the girls experienced two frightening visions which caused them to cry out in terror. Unlike the children of Fatima, they did not receive a brief vision of Hell, but one of the girls, Mari Loli, gave a vivid description of what happened. She said : ‘We were absolutely terrified. I cannot find words to explain it… We saw the rivers turn to blood. Fire was falling from heaven. And something worse still, which I cannot reveal at this time.’A second message, conveyed to Conchita in 1965, spoke of a further warning, which would be the last since the earlier one had been ignored. It declared that the cup which had been filling up was now overflowing. There was some criticism of the clergy. Too little importance was being attached to the Eucharist. All would have to strive to turn away the wrath of God. If they asked God’s forgiveness with sincere hearts He would pardon them. Mary loved them very much and did not want to see them condemned. If they prayed sincerely their requests for mercy would be granted. They should make more sacrifices and think about the passion of Jesus.
In the autumn of 1965 Conchita gave notice of an event that was yet to come. It would amount to a form of chastisement that could be seen as a final warning from God. She said that although it would be short-lived and cause mental rather than physical suffering, ‘this experience will involve every person in the world…It will be like an interior realisation of our sins. Believers, as well as unbelievers, wherever they are at the time, will see and feel it.’
This warning would precede the Great Miracle (probably by about a year, according to Mari Loli), but if people did not convert after these events God would send a Chastisement proportional in its severity to the severity of the sins of the world. This, one imagines, was reflected in the visions of the girls when they reported being terrified.
At an early stage of the apparitions the Blessed Virgin advised the four girls that the time would come when they would deny these experiences and contradict each other. Thus, when they began to issue their denials in the spring of 1963, it came as no surprise to believers who saw this merely as the fulfilllment of the virgin’s prophecy. Later, Conchita, Mari Loli and Jacinta ‘returned to reality’ and reaffirmed their supernatural experiences, while Mari Cruz continued to deny them.
Before that happened, however, the Bishop of Santander gratefully accepted the retractions of the girls, regretting the encouragement they had been given. He ended by saying that the words of the Gospel, the Pope, the Councils and the ordinary magisterium of the Church were the only reliable means of transmission for the ‘real messages from heaven.’ This statement infuriated supporters of the apparitions. As Sandral Zindars-Swartz recounts in her comprehensive coverage of the story of Garabandal, ‘Encountering Mary’, the supporters criticised members of the Bishop’s Commission for not investigating the matter thoroughly, and in some cases failing to even visit the area. The parish priest of Garabandal was reportedly offered a holiday during the investigation so that he would not be able to influence the outcome! As Canon Porro, a member of the clergy supporting the believers, put it : ‘This is the absurdity of it all, that five commissioners should be infallible, whereas thousands of others must admit to being ignorant, deluded or insane.’
In the case of Garabandal, the importance of the evidence of witnesses cannot be overstated. Testimonies have been, and still are, provided by them of the extraordinary behaviour of the four seers. They tell of how, during their ecstasies, their faces were transformed, becoming serene, happy and beautiful. Moreover, they became so heavy that even strong men could not lift them off the ground. Doctors who examined them while they were in these states tried pinching and pricking them with pins without producing any reaction, though the marks remained on their legs afterwards. Many of the onlookers were amazed at the speed with which the girls moved when making their way to the site of the apparition. Eighteen-year-old boys accustomed to running up steep mountain paths could not keep up with them. Nor did the girls ever perspire or show signs of being out of breath.
Further proof that the girls were not guilty of collusion, whereby they might have agreed on what they saw or heard, is provided by their description of the interior ‘calls’ they reported receiving whenever the Blessed Virgin was about to appear. The truth of their claim was tested by physically separating them to discover whether they all received their ‘calls’ simultaneously. Invariably, they all turned up at the site of the apparition at the same time.It remains to be seen whether the predictions of the main character, Conchita, are fulfilled. There is not much time. She is over the age of sixty, living in America with her children. Also living in America is a blind man by the name of Joey Lomangino. According to Conchita, Our Lady promised that his sight would be restored on the day of the Great Miracle. Joey is already over eighty years of age.
Let us hope he will not be disappointed.
Click here to go to Part 1 of this article, Fr. Luis Andreu -The Priest who died of joy
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Bibliography:
-'Encountering Mary’ by Sandral Zimdars-Swartz
[Editors note: The alleged heavenly apparitions at Garabandal referred to in this article have not thusfar been officially approved or disapproved by the Catholic church, therefore Catholics are free to discern and form their own judgements concerning them.]
16 comments:
Excellent article! I posted a link to it on my blog: http://whatisgarabandal.blogspot.com/2010/06/excellent-article-regarding-garabandal.html
Blessings+
Deacon John Giglio
Thank you Deacon John for your kind comments and for linking to this article.
I enjoyed reading a bit through your "What is Garabandal" blog. -Keep up the great work!
May God bless you and yours,
-Union in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
Glenn Dallaire
Thank you for the website. I love to read about the lives and visions of these holy people. You make it very easy to access them and read them. I do wish you would not have included Garabandal on the list though. It does us no good to read about unapproved apparent visions. The church wisely has not accepted their claims. It may cause confusion with some readers not familiar with Catholic saints as well. Thanks very much.
Dear Anonymous,
Thank you for your comments.
Believe me, I appreciate your prudence concering the alleged Marian apparations at Garabandal.
Surely we both agree that one should always try to be very prudent in regards to alleged private revelations.
A clarification is necessary in your comments concerning Garabandal through. While the Church has not formally approved of Garabandal, it has not formally condemned it either. Since there was never to be found any glaring theological errors with the messages and events, the Church has wisely taken the position of awaiting the fulfullment of the prophesised warning and miracle.
So, in other words, at this point the Church has left the faithful free to form their own judgement concerning these alleged events.
Finally, while there has been a number of Catholics who have formed a negative judgement concerning Garabandal, there has also been some notable Catholics who have recommended it, such as St (Padre) Pio, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and Mother Angelica to name a few.
And as for myself, having studied the events of Garabandal, and keeping in mind the position of the Church, I neither support nor condemn the alleged events at Garabandal, and with an open mind, yet prudent and cautious, I await the fullfillment of the prophesised events. Time will tell!
Thanks again for your comments.
Respectfully,
Glenn Dallaire
I was surprised that the garabandal apparitions were not ratifed.
It is well worth reading " a still small voice" by the famous benedict groeschel - to put such revelations into some kind of context.
With what are deemed private revelations the "approval" definitely comes with a health warning of "probably" genuine - the converse also true. The lack of approval by the ordrinary is not a definitive statement of falsehood or fake either.
It put conchita and the children into an impossible position. Small wonder she went to new york.
Hi RosaryBeads!
Thank you for your comments and the suggestion of Father Benedict Groechel's book.
Time will tell whether Garabandal will be approved by the Church. For now I belive the Church is waiting upon the prophesised "Great Miracle" to occur in Garabandal. This of course will then be a confirmation of the events at Garabandal. So, time will tell, I believe.
Without a doubt from the beginning the visionaries of Garabandal have suffered because of the doubts and uncertainties of the local clergy and those abroad. So I too am not at all surprised that 3 of the 4 visionaries moved here to the United States.
-May God bless yuu and yours,
Glenn Dallaire
Could someone make a link between
The secret of Garabandal and the 10 secrets of Medjugorge.Thanks a lot.
Hi Long,
Thanks for your comment.
While I have studied the apparitions at Garabandal very extensively, having read several books and many accounts on the subject, I have only read a little about Medjugorje, so I am not in a position to offer a link between the two.
Perhaps another more qualified person can do so here.
Thanks again and may God bless you and yours,
Glenn Dallaire
Glenn,
I, too, am surprised you would include a post promoting Garabandal. The "Church" HAS made a statement about the apparition through the local Bishops. This is how apparitions are discerned, NOT by the Pope. Additionally, "notable Catholics" are NOT the local Bishop! True, St. Padre Pio is a saint, but he was NOT the local Bishop of Garabandal! Obedience to the local Bishop is paramount to discern if an apparition is supernatural (from God) or preternatural (from the devil). Every beatified saint will tell you this.
You state you have read quite a lot about Garabandal, so could you please opine about the facts stated in this article? Further along in the article (under the headline "Bishop") you will see that 6 Bishops of the area had condemned the apparitions, as well as Rome coming to the aide of the local Bishops. http://www.unitypublishing.com/Apparitions/Garabandal2.html
Thanks and God Bless you.
Hi Anonymous,
Thanks for your comments and your concerns for the Church's position on the alleged events at Garabandal.
Neither Rome nor the local Bishops of Santander (both past and present) have ever condemned Garabandal. Neither however has it been approved. So, to correctly summarise the Church's position on Garabandal it would be correct to say that the Church has not yet made any definitive pronouncement regarding Garabandal.
The local Bishop has ruled "Non-constat de supernaturalitate" which literally means that it is not certain that the events are of supernatural origin, or in other words, the supernatural origin has not been established. With such a ruling, the events in question are still open to eventual recognition as being authentic or can be judged as not authentic.
In fact the Bishop of Santander, Bishop Juan Antonio del, who in 1992 had juristiction over Garabandal unequivically stated:
"The previous bishops did not admit that the apparitions were supernatural, but to condemn them, no, that word has never been used."
So, there we have the current Church position on the alleged appearences of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Garabandal. Thus, the faithful are currently free to discern and form their own conclusions.
As for myself, I am not seeking to "promote" Garabandal, however, having spent countless hours reading through the documentation of the alleged events, I have no reservations about presenting the facts concerning it, since the local Bishops themselves have found nothing contrary to Catholic faith and morals.
May God bless you and yours,
Glenn Dallaire
Regarding the happenings in the locale of Garabandal some many years ago. Many accept the events as true, while many think these are false. The following is an outline for the reasoning process used in coming to the conclusion that the events in the region are factual and not otherwise. To this writer, there are only four possible answers as to the reality of these claims.
1) Are the seers making this up?
2) Are these occurrences imagined?
3) Are they supernatural in a negative sense?
4) Are they supernatural in a positive sense?
The first explanation can be eliminated quite quickly due to the historical documentation provided regarding the tests run on the seers involving multiple instruments that would make any human being respond in a certain manner.
The second explanation is quite obviously not viable due to the presence of witnesses along with a taped miracle on the day foretold from the apparition that an certain event would occur.
In the third possible answer, it should be evident to believers that the false one cannot contradict himself, as our Lord says. “How can the evil one stand against himself? His house would fall.” Albeit, the evil one lies. However, this entity cannot stand up for the things uttered by the vision, such as amending lives.
Eliminate the impossible, such as explanation three, with the improbable next, the only viable option is the last one. And the last one presents absolutely no difficulty in being accepted, seeing that nothing in the messages has been disproved nor found false at this time. That is all at this time.
Hi Anonymous,
Thank you for your kind comments.
I completely agree with your assesment.
In all humility I am quite discerning by nature, and over the years I spent many, many hours pouring through much of the documentation on Garabandal, (in fact I was just reading an article about Garabandal from Joey Lomangino today)and I was always left with a sense that the hand of God was present throughout the events there.
And I also believe that the Church will recognise the supernatural character of the events of Garabandal when the predicted Warning and Miracle take place.
Thanks again for your comments and may God bless you and your loved ones.
-Glenn Dallaire
Hi Glenn,
The Garabandal site is interesting. Thank you.
Any idea if Joey Lomangino is still alive? Where is he now?
Hi Anonymous,
Thank you for your comment.
YES! Joey Lomangino is still alive and he is still one of the greatest promoters and supporters of Garabandal through his longtime apostolate of "The Workers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel".
In fact, they have an excellent website-- www.Garabandal.us with lots of information about the events at Garabandal. You will also find Joeys story there.
Joey still lives in Lindenhurst New York, as he has for many years.
May God bless you and your loved ones,
Glenn Dallaire
It's disobediently bizarre that some people insist "The Vatican" has to make a statement on the validity of any alleged apparation. The Magisterium of the Church STARTS with the local bishop. He is THE CHURCH in that area and responsible for investigating any alleged supernatural phenomena.
Stop it with these bogus sightings......it's really irritating.
I really pray that if it be GODs holy will that the warning/illumination of conscience happen soon in order that more souls will be thereby saved.
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