Garabandal apparitions

San Sebastian de Garabandal is a rural village in the Pena Sagra mountain range of Northern Spain. Located in the autonomous community of Cantabria, about 600 meters above sea level, Garabandal is about 35 miles (55 km) from the cantabrian capital, Santander, and roughly 250 miles (400 km) from the spanish capital, Madrid. It has a population of about 300.

Commonly referred to simply as Garabandal, this town received a huge amount of publicity in the early 1960s. From 1961 to 1965, four young schoolgirls received visitations from St. Michael the Archangel and the Blessed Virgin Mary (see Marian apparitions). The visitations numbered in the thousands, drew huge crowds, and featured paranormal phenomena, much of it filmed or photographed, with thousands of witnesses. The girls received messages from the Virgin.

The main visionary Conchita has declared:

•The Warning is a thing that comes directly from God and will be visible throughout the entire world in whatever place anyone might be.

•The Warning will be like a revelation of our sins and it will be seen and experienced equally by believers and non-believers and people of any religion whatsoever.

•The Warning is like a purification for the Miracle.

•And it is a sort of a catastrophe. It will make us think of the dead, that is, we would prefer to be dead rather than to experience the Warning.

•The Warning is something supernatural and will not be explained by science.

•It will be seen and felt.

•The Warning will be a correction of the conscience of the world.

•For those who do not know Christ, they will believe it is a Warning from God.

•The most important thing about that day is that everyone in the whole world will see a sign, a grace, or a punishment within themselves, in other words, a Warning.

•They will find themselves all alone in the world no matter where they are at the time, alone with their conscience right before God.

•They will then see all their sins and what their sins have caused.

•We will all feel it differently because it will depend on our conscience. The Warning will be very personal, therefore, we will all react differently to it.

•The most important thing will be to recognize our own sins and the bad consequences of them.

•Your experience of the Warning will be different from mine because your sins are different from mine.

•This will be a Warning to see what you have done with your sins.

•It will be like a purification before the Miracle to see if with the Warning and Miracle we will be converted.

•The Virgin told me that before the Miracle, God will be sending us a Warning so as to purify us or prepare us to see the Miracle and in this way we may draw enough grace to change our lives toward God.

•It is a phenomenon which will be seen and felt in all the world and everywhere; I have always given as an example that of two stars that collide.

•This phenomenon will not cause physical damage, but it will horrify us because at that very moment we will see our souls and the harm we have done.

•It will be as though we were in agony but we will not die by its effects but perhaps we will die of fright or shock to see ourselves.

•No one will have doubts of it being from God, and of its not being human.

•I who know what it is, am very much afraid of that day.

•The Virgin told us that the Warning and Miracle will be the last warnings or public manifestations that God will give us. This is why I believe that after them we will be near the end of time.

•To me it's like two stars that crash and make a lot of noise and a lot of light but they don't fall down.

•It's something that's not going to hurt us but we're going to see it.

•In that moment, we're going to see our conscience. You're going to see everything wrong that you're doing and the good you're not doing.

The visionary Loli stated:

•Everyone will experience it wherever they may be, regardless of their condition or their knowledge of God. It will be an interior personal experience. It will look as if the world has come to a standstill, however, no one will be aware of that as they will be totally absorbed in their own experience.

•It is going to be something like an interior feeling of sorrow and pain for having offended God. God will help us to see clearly the harm we are causing Him and all the evil things we do. He will help us to sense this interior pain because often when we do something wrong we just ask the Lord's forgiveness with our lips, but now (through the Warning) He will help us sense physically that deep sorrow.

The visionary Jacinta stated:

•The Warning is something that is first seen in the air everywhere in the world and immediately is transmitted into the interior of our souls. It will last for a very little time, but it will seem a very long time because of its effect within us. It will be for the good of our souls, in order to see in ourselves our conscience, the good and the bad that we've done.

The official sobriquet for Our Lady in this series of visitations is 'Our Lady of Mount Carmel of Garabandal, because her appearance, dress and hairstyle looked like portrayals of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

Today, the town is a place of pilgrimage for Roman Catholics and members of other faiths, although the official Church position has determined that there was no supernatural validity for the apparitions.[1] Because of the town's remote location and lack of easy accessibility, it has remained largely the same as it was in 1961, and has not suffered the touristy overhaul that has befallen some other visitation sites such as Lourdes.

External links

• St. Joseph Publications, a non profit foundation, was incorporated in 1973 to foster devotion to St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary and make known messages given through apparitions. Books and videos of Our Lady’s apparitions, especially Garabandal and Fatima, are available on this site free for download.

• Workers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel de Garabandal Official Web site of the Workers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The organization was founded by Joey Lomangino in Lindenhurst, New York (1968). [2]*[3]

• Workers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel de Garabandal The International organization.