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.
Continued
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