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Our Woman of Holes - Siracusa, Sicily September 1953

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In a major development, Archbishop Ramon Arguelles, D.D., the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lipa, lately issued a brand new, official decree encouraging the so-called apparitions of the Virgin Jane in Lipa, Batangas - paving the way in which for a positive report on the reliability of the apparitions. If permitted, the Lipa apparitions would be the first in the Philippines to be officially permitted by the Church. Lipa might therefore possibly join a quick list of Church-approved apparitions of the Virgin Mary that features Fatima, Lourdes, Akita, Amsterdam, and others.

The probable first permitted apparition of the Gifted Virgin Jane in the Philippines describes the alleged apparitions apparitions of our lady Our Woman to a Filipina Carmelite postulant long ago in 1948. Teresita Castillo said to possess observed the Virgin Mary many times in the convent grounds. The Virgin named herself "Mediatrix of All Acceptance ".Marvelous baths of rose petals were also reported in the convent grounds, with tens of thousands of witnesses declaring to own seen flower petals materialize out of slim air. The name of "Mediatrix of All Grace" is in reference to the Virgin Mary's recognized position as accessory of God's graces to men.

The concept is of particular importance in these days in the Catholic Church, because presently, there is an important international movement to petition the pope to officially declare a fifth Marian Dogma - that of Linda as "Co-redemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate." Filipinos embraced the apparition, with hundreds visiting the convent reasons wanting to catch a glimpse of Our Woman, and praying to obtain a remarkable flower petal. In an unlucky twist of events, though, the Church arrived on the scene with an formal judgment only 3 years after the initial studies of the apparition. The state verdict? The apparitions were reported to be maybe not supernatural in nature. Community veneration of the picture of Mary Mediatrix of All Acceptance was prohibited.

The commitment to Linda Mediatrix, however, did not die regardless of the ruling. Forty decades following the first negative ruling on the apparitions, in 1991, then Lipa Archbishop Mariano Gaviola issued a decree enabling the picture to be removed and subjected to the general public in the Carmelite chapel in Lipa. This was in reaction to significantly clamor from the folks, who had kept dedicated to the Mediatrix despite all of the years of prohibition. Since then, tens of thousands of pilgrims have continually visited the statue.

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