Favorite Marian Apparation?

[StColette]

Hey this isn't fair rofl I can't pick one.

and correct for one of those Eddie, Akita, Japan

"I don't konw if La Sallete is approved I thought i read that the seerers retracted their statments or something."

La Sallete has been approved for some time now. You're confusing it with Garabandal, Spain. La Sallete was approved by the Church way back in 1851.

Zeitun, Egypt is considered the eccumenical apparition, because Our Lady appeared to thousands of Catholics, Muslims, and Protestants.

Some other approved apparitions include

Siena, Italy to St. Catherine
Rue Du Bac, France to St. Catherine Leboure
Pontmain, France
Beauraing, Belgium
Banneux, Belgium
Cuapa, Nicaragua

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

[quote name='StColette' date='Aug 26 2005, 07:11 AM']Hey this isn't fair rofl I can't pick one.

and correct for one of those Eddie, Akita, Japan

"I don't konw if La Sallete is approved I thought i read that the seerers retracted their statments or something."

La Sallete has been approved for some time now. You're confusing it with Garabandal, Spain.  La Sallete was approved by the Church way back in 1851.

Zeitun, Egypt is considered the eccumenical apparition, because Our Lady appeared to thousands of Catholics, Muslims, and Protestants.

Some other approved apparitions include

Siena, Italy to St. Catherine
Rue Du Bac, France to St. Catherine Leboure
Pontmain, France
Beauraing, Belgium
Banneux, Belgium
Cuapa, Nicaragua
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Just to make things a little harder... :
Our Resident Marian Apparition Expert

[Brother Adam]

They still all pretty much make me skeptical

[StColette]

[quote name='FutureNunJMJ' date='Aug 26 2005, 08:13 AM']Just to make things a little harder...  :
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rofl I could have listed a few more like

Our Lady appearing to St. Dominic
Our Lady appearing to St. Simon
Our Lady also appeared to Pope Leo XIII

I know I'm an Apparitions nerd! lol

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

Oh, I'm sure you could just go on and on and on...

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

[quote name='StColette' date='Aug 26 2005, 07:11 AM']"I don't konw if La Sallete is approved I thought i read that the seerers retracted their statments or something."

La Sallete has been approved for some time now. You're confusing it with Garabandal, Spain.  La Sallete was approved by the Church way back in 1851.
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Also, both of the seers did not live out lives apart from the world, but in it and had hard lives while on earth.

Here is part of my paper I wrote on the apparition:
[quote]Even though Melanie and Maximin were never raised to become saints like St. Bernadette at Lourdes and two of the seers at Fatima, they did complete the mission Our Lady had sent them on: to spread her message to her children.  Both of the children after the peace and glory of the 30 minute visit of the Blessed Mother were unable to find peace or privacy until they attained it in heaven.  But their lives reflected the message of Our Lady: “Heaven’s sorrow at the sins of mankind” (Holy Spirit Interactive).[/quote]

Man, I really like this paper I wrote. It is a very basic informative paper. I like it

[Cam42]

I have a special devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes.

[scardella]

I've been to Lourdes, but I want to go to Medjugorje. I wanted to go there on my semester in Austria but wound up going to Liseux and Paris instead.

I know a number of poeple who can attribute their conversion to Medjugorje. I don't understand why some people are anti-Medjugorje.

I hope for a honeymoon to Assisi and Medjugorje, but first I've gotta find the girl...

[Nicole8223]

[quote name='scardella' date='Aug 26 2005, 11:28 AM']I've been to Lourdes, but I want to go to Medjugorje.  I wanted to go there on my semester in Austria but wound up going to Liseux and Paris instead. 

I know a number of poeple who can attribute their conversion to Medjugorje.  I don't understand why some people are anti-Medjugorje.

I hope for a honeymoon to Assisi and Medjugorje, but first I've gotta find the girl...
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I'm getting married next August and we are thinking of doing our honeymoon to Medugorje. We've been there together before and it was awesome. We would stop on the Croatian coastline, too, to enjoy the beaches and sun there.

[avemaria40]

I would love to go to Fatima, Lourdes, Guadalupe, and also to Egypt, but can someone tell me about the Japanese one?

[the_rev]

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Description of the Virgin

In the events of Akita, there was no "apparition" of the Virgin. Agnes reported the apperance of her guardian angel but the messages attributed to Mary were said to emanate from a bleeding 3-foot high wooden statue. The wooden statue in the convent at Akita was carved by a Buddhist woodcarver from an identical image of The Lady of All Nations.

Messages

The Virgin delivered messages 3 times in 1973 (July 6, August 3, and October 13). Her guardian angel appeared an additional 4 times.

"As for the content of the messages received, it is no way contrary to Catholic doctrine or to good morals. When one thinks of the actual state of the world, the warning seems to correspond to it in many points. The Congregation of the Doctrine for the Faith has given me directives in this sense that only the bishop of the diocese in question has the power to recognize an event of this kind."

Bishop John Shojiro Ito, the Diocesan Bishop of Niigata

Click here to read messages.


Miracles, Cures, and Signs

The statue wept 101 times. Her guardian angel explained it with the following: "There is a meaning to the figure 101 (the number of times the statue wept). This signifies that sin came into the world by a woman and it is also by a woman that salvation came into the world. The zero between the two signifies the Eternal God who is from all eternity until eternity. The first one represents Eve, and the last, the Virgin Mary."

The actual weeping of the statue was not only witnessed by the local bishop but was shown on national Japanese TV.

Theresa Chun, a Korean woman diagnosed with a brain tumor, placed an image of Our Lady of Akita under her pillow and prayed to her for a miraculous healing. On August 4, 1981, the tumor was found to have disappeared. This healing was well documented by Fr. Joseph Oh of Seoul, S. Korea.

In May 1982, her angel told Agnes that her hearing would be permanently restored that month, and on May 30 the deafness was cured. (Tests performed on Agnes at the Akita Muncipal Hospital in 1975 had confirmed that she was deaf and that her deafness was incurable.)


Approval

The first tests on the samples of blood, tears, and sweat from the statue were performed by Professor Eiji Okuhara, a Catholic physician in the Akita University Department of Biochemistry and a former Rockefeller Foundation fellow. Professor Okuhara, who had witnessed the weeping statue himself, also passed the samples on to a non-Christian forensic specialist, Dr. Kaoru Sagisaka. The scientists confirmed that the samples were of human origin- the blood was found to be type B and the sweat and tears were type AB.

"After the inquiries conducted up to the present day, one cannot deny the supernatural character of a series of unexplainable events relative to the statue of the Virgin honored at Akita (Diocese of Niigata). Consequently I authorize that all of the diocese entrusted to me venerate the Holy Mother of Akita."

April 22, 1984 approved by Bishop John Shoojiroo Ito of Niigata

June, 1988 approved by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith


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