Visit to Garabandal, Spain

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Visit to Garabandal, Spain

Dear Friends,

On September 14 at 1:00 p.m. we arrived in Garabandal, a village in northern Spain where a series of supposed apparitions took place from 1961 to 1965. Four young girls between the ages of 11 and 12 said they saw an Angel and Our Blessed Mother. The appearances mostly took place they said on top of a high hill near the village. I went with our group up the hill with a close friend of Conchita, one of the visionaries.

Conchita’s friend told us this: “For three days the seers saw the Archangel Gabriel and he spoke to them on the third day. He told them to go up the hill where there are nine pine trees all together and Our Blessed Mother will come to visit them the next day. The girls were there and Our Lady of Mount Carmel came to visit them. She had had harsh words for the world. The people have to return to Jesus or there will be a great and horrible chastisement that will come soon.” The woman said, “At times the Archangel gave them the Holy Eucharist on their tongues and the host would grow bigger until they swallowed the Eucharist. One could see all the girls looking up at the apparition and then they would start walking backwards on the trail and they would even go down the hill backwards but they would not fall. These were special miracles.”

The woman, the friend of Conchita, had a small crucifix kissed, she said, by Our Blessed Mother and she blessed us all with it. Then she took us to her home in the village and asked me to bless her house. Then she asked me to take the large baby Jesus out to the people. The group took the statue one by one in their arms and hugged it. We also visited Conchita’s home and the home of Mari Loli, another seer, who died in 2009. She explained that Our Lady would visit the seers in their homes and at times the Archangel would also come to the door of their homes. Today there are three seers still living but none of them live in Garabandal. Two are living in the USA and the third lives in another place in Spain.

The Church has not approved the apparitions of Garabandal although the visions stopped many years ago. The people are hoping it will come soon.

Father Melvin