that of alleged apparitions [which are] frequently joined with claims of supernatural messages and with weeping statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary or of saints." It is the right and responsibility of ...

Apparitions are a widespread Marian phenomenon ... On Saturday, December 9, 1531, according the the received tradition, the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego, a recently converted Indian, on the hill ...

On June 29, 2001, nearly 20 years after Alphonsine had first reported her apparition, Rwanda’s Bishop Augustin Misago and the Vatican declared that, yes, the Virgin Mary had appeared at Kibeho.

I have studied modern Marian apparitions for about 15 years and wrote a book about an American apparition. Reports of Virgin ...

And many such things you do.' Reflection on the sculpture The sculpture of Our Lady of Lourdes located in the grotto at ...

The day is celebrated in the Catholic tradition when St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an early Franciscan missionary, saw an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary on his way to mass. When Diego saw ...

was one of the most revered apparitions of the Virgin Mary in New Spain. Her image is believed to have miraculously appeared on the cloak of a 16th-century Nahua man, Juan Diego. And throughout the ...

St. John brought people to love Christ and the Virgin Mary by speaking tirelessly about ... Nevertheless, it was not until after the Apparitions at Rue du Bac concerning the "Miraculous Medal ...

We learn in Sacred Scripture that Saint Paul suffered from a nameless illness, perhaps malaria or a debilitating eye disorder ...

Pope Francis has expressed scepticism of such phenomena, saying last year that Virgin Mary apparitions are "not always real" and that he likes seeing her as "pointing to Jesus" rather than drawing ...

The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ but refrained from calling the apparitions genuinely supernatural.

The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ but refrained from calling the apparitions genuinely supernatural.