Garabandal

Unexplainable Events

Other unusual things, for which there is no human explanation, also took place along with the apparitions or visions. Taken all together they constitute a powerful argument in favor of the authenticity of the events. The three calls, or llamadas, which preceded and announced Our Lady's coming; the ecstatic marches; oscillations and falls; the children's excessive weight to others and exceptional lightness to each other in ecstasy; their unexplainable knowledge of what people totally unknown to them had done or were thinking; the kissing of objects by Our Lady and the amazing way they were distributed to people during the apparitions these are some of the exceptional unexplainable phenomena encountered at Garabandal.

Garabandal A Unique Event Garabandal is unique in the history of Marian apparitions for a number of reasons.
1) The number of apparitions, somewhere in the vicinity of 2,000 is amazing.
2) The appearance and extensive use of a new means of heavenly communication (not usually encountered along with appantions having a public message) namely the locution (an interior voice), sets Garabandal apart from Lourdes and Fatima.
3) The span of time over which the apparitions (June 18, 1961 to November 13, 1965) and locutions (June 19,1961 to February 13, 1 966) occurred, is exceptional.
4) The things announced for the future and )yet to come the Warning, the great Miracle and the permanent sign at the pines, and the conditional Chastisement are most unusual.
5) The variety of the sites where the visions took place in the church, at the door of the church, in homes on various streets of the village, at the pines, in the cemetery-is astonishing.
6) The time at which they took place, literally at every hour of the day and night, is quite uncommon.
7) The abundance of secondary or supporting mystical phenomena such as the miracle of the visible Host, the llamadas or calls and the ecstatic marches and falls, is almost overwhelming.
8) The trials of the visionaries, the difficulties and opposition that have accompanied the events almost continually are so unusual that there does not seem to be any natural explanation for them.
9) The manner in which Garabandal has managed to over come all obstacles and become more and more widely known and accepted is another of the almost unbelievable happenings connected with it.
10) Finally and most important of all this spreading of the Garabandal Message has been accompanied everywhere with an amazing explosion of grace manifested in cures conversions and tremendous growth in love of God of neighbor of the Blessed Virgin and of the Eucharist on the part of both those who disseminate the Message and those who heed it These are what are known as the "fruits of Garabandal"

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