Lady of All Nations

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Image of the Lady of All Nations according to the publication report (copy of the original by Heinrich Repke in a Philippine church)

Lady of All Nations (Dutch: De Vrouwe van alle Volkeren ) the Virgin Mary is mentioned in the private revelations of the visionary Ida Peerdeman , which are said to have taken place in Amsterdam from March 25, 1945 to May 31, 1959 . The Mother of God to her several times under the title "Lady of All Nations" appeared to be.

According to these messages, one day, on May 31, a Pope will proclaim the great final dogma and appoint Mary "great co-redeemer , mediator of all graces and intercessory omnipotence on God's throne before the eyes of all peoples". Originally the "woman" had this for the pontificate of Pius XII. announced, after his death for that of his successor.

Followers of this Marian apparition spread the image and prayer of the Lady of All Nations around the world as part of the so-called “World Action” . A foundation was established for this purpose. In Amsterdam there is a Chapel of the Lady of All Nations, which attracts numerous pilgrims .

Ida Peerdeman and the apparitions of Mary from Amsterdam

Chapel of the Lady of All Nations , a residential building in Amsterdam that was converted in 1976

Ida Peerdeman was born on August 13, 1905 in Alkmaar , the Netherlands, as the youngest of five siblings in a Catholic family. When she was baptized she was given the name Isje Johanna, but she was only called Ida all her life. The Blessed Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to her for the first time on her way home from confession at the age of twelve .

On March 25, 1945, Our Lady is said to have revealed herself to her for the first time as an adult in Amsterdam. This was the first of 56 apparitions. With great emphasis, Mary addressed the Church and the world. In prophetic visions she warned the world and especially Europe against apostasy, moral decline, catastrophes and war. Little by little, in the messages, Our Lady revealed a plan with which God through Mary wanted to save the world and prepare for a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit . In addition, she gave a picture of grace and a prayer to all peoples and nations. The Mother of God appears under a new title, "under which she wants to be known and loved by all people at this time:" The Lady of All Nations "or" The Mother of All Nations ". In her messages, the Blessed Mother is said to have asked for a new dogma. Our Lady is to be proclaimed by the Pope as the “great co-redeemer, mediator of all graces and intercessory omnipotence on God's throne before the eyes of all peoples”. According to the visionary, a Pope will one day comply with this wish. The Amsterdam messages are also considered unique in the history of the Marian apparitions because, according to Peerdeman, the Blessed Mother describes herself in six messages in detail, her own image of grace. The picture according to this description was painted by the German church painter Heinrich Repke in 1951. After moving for 25 years, it has been in the Chapel of the Lady of All Nations in Amsterdam, Diepenbrockstraat 3 since 1976.

Ida Peerdeman died in 1996.

Prayer of the Lady of All Nations

Already in the first message on March 25, 1945, Our Lady spoke of her prayer: “The prayer must be spread!” She announced to Ida Peerdeman. But it was not until six years later that the wording of the prayer was revealed to the seer:

“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send your Spirit over the earth now. Let the Holy Spirit dwell in the hearts of all peoples, that they may be saved from decline, calamity and war. May the Lady of All Nations, who was once Mary, be our advocate. Amen."

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith asked for the prayer of the "Lady of All Nations" in 2006, a text change. Instead of “Lady of All Nations, who was once Mary”, it is now called “Lady of All Nations, the Blessed Virgin Mary”. The wording of the prayer is now:

“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send your Spirit over the earth now. Let the Holy Spirit dwell in the hearts of all peoples, that they may be saved from decline, calamity and war. May the Lady of All Nations, the Blessed Virgin Mary, be our intercessor. Amen."

Position of the Catholic Church

In 1957, the then bishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Johannes Petrus Huibers, commented on the apparitions of Peerdemans for the first time with the open judgment non constat de supernaturalitate (“the supernatural is not certain”). The Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith confirmed this assessment in 1972, but after further investigations came in 1974 to the judgment constat de non supernaturalitate ("the non-supernatural is certain"). In 1996, Bishop Henrik Bomers of Amsterdam allowed the public veneration of the Mother of God under the title “Lady of All Nations” and declared, contrary to the judgment of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, that the apparitions were (only) not supernatural. On May 31, 2002, the apparitions of Mary in Amsterdam were confirmed as supernatural by Bishop Jozef Marianus Punt . His spokesman stated that the bishop had consulted theologians and psychologists and was unable to discover any theological or psychological obstacles that prevented the recognition of supernaturalism. The “experience of conversions” and the “testimonies of graces received” speak for the supernatural. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith did not contradict this view, but neither did it confirm it. Rather, the negative judgment of 1974 was republished in 2006.

The Amsterdam apparitions and in particular the dogma required are still controversial within the Catholic Church. Since 1997 there have also been annual days of prayer in honor of the Lady of All Nations around the world. The former Archbishop of Cologne, Joachim Cardinal Meisner , also took part in the 2016 Day of Prayer in Düsseldorf .

literature

  • Manfred Hauke : The manifestations of the "Lady of All Nations". Clarifying information. In: Sedes Sapientiae. Mariological Yearbook 16 (2012) Volume 2 , Kisslegg 2012, pp. 60–87
  • Gebhard Paul Maria Sigl : The Lady of All Nations: “With this title she will save the world!”; Amsterdam Embassy of March 20, 1953; Co-redeemer, mediator, advocate. Verlag Lütisburg-Station: Family of Mary the Co-redeemer; 1998, 344 pp. ISBN 978-3-9521553-0-1
  • The messages of the Lady of All Nations. 9th edition, Miriam-Verlag, Jestetten 2004, ISBN 3-87449-006-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hauke ​​p. 70
  2. ↑ The Lady of All Nations - the great world action , last seen on October 15, 2016
  3. ↑ The Chapel of the Lady of all Nations , accessed October 16, 2016.
  4. ↑ The Lady of All Nations - the seer of Amsterdam , last seen on October 14, 2016
  5. ↑ The Lady of All Nations - the apparitions , last seen on October 14, 2016
  6. ↑ Under this title she will save the world (March 20, 1953) , last seen on October 14, 2016.
  7. ↑ The Lady of All Nations: The Dogma , last seen on October 15, 2016.
  8. ↑ de-vrouwe.info
  9. ↑ The Lady of All Nations - Prayer , last seen on October 14, 2016.
  10. ↑ The picture of the woman and her prayer , last seen on October 14, 2016
  11. ↑ Vatican rejects the term 'Lady of All Nations, Mary was once' , kath.net Katholische Nachrichten, last seen on October 15, 2016.
  12. ↑ Hauke ​​p. 61, p. 70
  13. ↑ The Lady of All Nations - Church standpoint , last seen on October 14, 2016.
  14. ↑ Bishop of Haarlem recognizes 'Lady of All Nations' , kath.net. Catholic News, last seen October 14, 2016
  15. ↑ The Lady of All Nations - why days of prayer? , last seen on October 15, 2016.
  16. ↑ National and local days of prayer throughout the whole world , last seen on October 15, 2016.