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May 17, 2024 · The Catholic Church has reformed its process for evaluating reported miraculous events, such as visions of the Virgin Mary and stigmata wounds. The new guidelines, approved by Pope Francis, aim to prevent fraud and abuse and require Vatican approval before endorsing any event as supernatural.
May 17, 2024 · The Roman Catholic Church has long been vigilant when it comes to supernatural apparitions like professed sightings of the Virgin Mary, weeping Madonnas or bleeding crucifixes. Over the centuries...
Off to the side in prayer stood Mary, Joseph, and St. John (with St. John dressed as a bishop). Because Mary was among those seen, the apparition is classified as Marian, although the simultaneous appearance of Jesus, Mary, Joseph, John, and numerous angels makes it unique among this category.
May 16, 2024 · Apparitions have been reported across the centuries. Those recognised by the Church have prompted pilgrims, and popes, to visit spots where they are said to have taken place.
May 17, 2024 · Our Lady of Fatima, in Roman Catholicism, the Virgin Mary in her six appearances before three peasant children near the village of Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. Fatima became the location of one of the greatest Marian shrines in the world, visited by thousands of pilgrims each year.
May 13, 2024 · On the one hand, historic and “approved” Marian apparitions in places like Lourdes or Fátima have inspired devotion and pilgrimage by millions of Catholics—including several popes—and ...
May 14, 2024 · The Vatican has issued norms for how to evaluate and respond to alleged apparitions of Mary or other saints since 1978. The new norms by Cardinal Fernández will address the media environment and the role of the Holy See in such cases.
