A documentary produced and narrated by June Keithley- Castro, a renowned broadcast journalist from the Philippines about a Marian Apparition that happened in the Carmelite Monastery in Lipa Philippines in the year 1948. This Documentary was chosen by the Cultural Center of the Philippines as the Best Documentary in 1992.
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As an Archbishop of Lipa, many have been requesting him to open the case of Lipa Apparition. Due to these demands of the laity, Archbishop Ramon Arguelles then set up a committee to restudy and further investigate the Lipa phenomenon. The Commission on Research and Documentation (CORD), consisting of priests, nuns, and laypeople, gathered documents
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Click thumbnail to read A book of reflections on the Lipa phenomenon which was written by Lipa Archbishop Emeritus Mariano Gaviola y Garcés (Archbishop of Lipa 1981–1992) dated April 16, 1995. Herein we can also find the course of action he took while he was still the Archbishop of Lipa wherein the ban on the
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A decree by the then Apostolic Administrator Rufino Santos on matters concerning the Lipa Phenomenon issued the day after the negative decree was declared, remarking “until a final decision on the matter will come from the Holy See”.
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The 1951 committee of six Filipino bishops signed the negative verdict on Lipa Apparition to which everybody bowed down in obedience, even the recently removed in position but believers of Lipa Apparition, former Lipa Bishop Alfredo Versoza and Auxillary Bishop Alfredo Obviar. Everybody fell silent, including the community of Lipa Carmel who was afraid that
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The devotions remained suppressed but continued silently. Two foreigner priests brought statues of Our Lady to their assigned parishes in Mindanao where the devotion to Our Lady Mary Mediatrix of All Grace also flourished silently. Meanwhile, in Batangas and many other places, the silent devotion continued. Until on May 21, 1990, Archbishop Mariano Gaviola suddenly
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(Pictures from left to right: Cardinal Rufino Santos who was then the Apostolic Administrator of Lipa in 1951, Bishop Alredo Versoza, Bishop Alfredo Obviar, Mother Mary Cecilia of Jesus, Sr. Mary Anne Cuna, Sr. Teresita Castillo) At first, the local bishop of Lipa at the time Bishop Alfredo F. Verzosa was incredulous of the reported
Many have been written and recorded about the stories of healing, conversion, and answered prayers of people and devotees who asked for help and intercessions of Our Lady Mary Mediatrix of All Grace whom they came to know through this Lipa phenomenon. In this post, we will only present to you two of the greatest
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News of the apparition soon spread to the different parts of the country. People started flocking the monastery grounds even while the Chapel of the monastery was still being built. Lipa City soon received so many visitors from all over the country that during those times created traffic on roads leading to the monastery. Some
For those who do not know yet, the Lipa apparitions began on September 12, 1948, when a 21-year-old postulant named Sr. Teresita began to have visions of Mary in the garden of Lipa Carmel Monastery in Batangas, Philippines. Mary is said to have appeared to her on a cloud, dressed in simple white robe with
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