Devotion To Apparition Approved

Devotion To Apparition Approved

 

In a sharp reversal, the bishop of Bergamo, Italy, on Wednesday set aside a longstanding prohibition against devotions at an alleged and particularly spectacular if largely unknown apparition site in Ghiaie di Bonate, a hamlet northeast of Milan.

The bishop, Monsignor Francesco Beschi, “announced a decision at the end of a Holy See procedure… to authorize, value, and accompany the cult of ‘Mary Queen of the Family’ at the parish chapel,” erasing a ban on such devotion first set in place in 1948. The apparitions, phenomena, and messages are still considered “non constat” — unproven — however.

But the order, at the behest of the Vatican, acknowledges that pilgrimages and devotions inspired by thirteen apparitions that took place over a period of twenty-one days from May 13 to May 31, 1944 have continued non-stop, bearing obvious fruit in what the bishop described, on an order technically executed on February 11, the feast day of Lourdes, as a “true, concrete, and humble” way. 

The 1948 judgment, now negated, had been harsh, stating that “every form of devotion for Our Lady, worshipped as appeared at Ghiaie di Bonate, in compliance with the canonical laws, remains hereunder forbidden.” Moreover, it was caused by the actions of a priest that even Pope John XXIII held as suspect. The new declaration notes that the majority of the faithful, especially the seer, Adelaide Roncalli, have “always trusted the wisdom of the Church by living a real and fruitful Marian devotion.”

She was a girl of just seven, was Adelaide, when Mary appeared with the Holy Family at Ghiaie di Bonate. The apparitions, sometimes including eight angels, continued for nine consecutive days, with first several girlfriends accompanying her, then dozens, and then hundreds of townsfolk, swelling to crowds estimated at 200,000.

After a short respite, the apparitions recommenced on May 28, continuing till the end of the month, when 350,00 were said to have jammed the area, many of them reporting extraordinary solar and other miracles — more in number than witnessed the great sun miracle at Fatima.

Just as Fatima came toward the end of World War One, so did Ghiaie di Bonate — known now as the “Fatima Epilogue” — come at the end of World War Two, which had a grueling effect on this part of Italy.

The celestial phenomena included striking rays of sun that fell upon Adelaide. 

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