A number of world events are coinciding in these times that seem to confirm that the fulfilment of the prophecies of Garabandal is at hand. In short, the prophecies refer to a period of tribulation for the world during which a Warning will be given to all of mankind simultaneously. Within a year of the Warning, a Miracle will occur in Garabandal which will leave a visible sign for all to see. Following the Miracle, if humanity still fails to turn to the Lord, there will be a fearful Chastisement on a global scale.
In a moment, we will look at some pointers which indicate that the fulfilment of these prophecies is imminent. One of the most ominous of these is a statement by visionary, Mari-Loli, who said that Our Lady had revealed that the Warning would occur at a time when “Russia will suddenly and unexpectedly overrun a great part of the free world”. After the fall of the USSR in 1991, many people thought that such a prediction had become farfetched. Yet, as we watch, Russia has launched an unprovoked invasion on one of the largest countries in Europe, almost precipitating a global disaster with their reckless bombing of an enormous nuclear reactor on the night of March 3rd.
The Visions of Garabandal, 1961-65
Between 1961 and 1965, four girls in the hamlet of Garabandal in northern Spain claimed to have seen Our Lady thousands of times. Though the apparitions were never formally approved by the Church, the visions were accompanied by a vast number of phenomena that defy natural explanation. These include levitations, ecstatic marches, reading of thoughts, insensitivity to pain, locutions, healings, and supernatural knowledge. Medical professionals, including doctors and psychiatrists, witnessed an enormous multitude of such events and testified to them in writing.
While it seemed very clear to the onlookers in Garabandal that something other-worldly was happening, the local diocese of Santander took a very negative approach to the events. Fr. Jose Luis Saavedra, a priest of the order of the Home of the Mother, has done his doctoral dissertation on the apparitions in Garabandal. He found that the investigation of the visions carried out by the local diocese did not follow standard norms of impartiality. The original “investigation” seemed intent on discrediting the visions out of fear of possible negative repercussions for the Church. Then, sensationally, in May 1983, Dr. Luis Morales Noriega, the medical expert for the diocesan investigation, retracted his previously negative opinion and acknowledged the authenticity of the apparitions. To everyone’s surprise, after years of negativity from the local ecclesiastical authorities, Dr Morales stated that his new positive declaration was made with the permission of the bishop of Santander.
Messages of Garabandal
Unlike Medjugorje, the messages of Garabandal are very few in number. The first message was read aloud by the girls on October 18, 1961: “We must make many sacrifices, perform much penance, and visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently. But first, we must lead good lives. If we do not, a chastisement will befall us. The cup is already filling up, and if we do not change, a very great chastisement will come upon us.”
The second message from Our Lady, announced on June 18, 1965, was received by Conchita González alone: “As my Message of the 18th of October has not been complied with, and as it has not been made known to the world, I am telling you that this is the last one. Previously, the Cup was filling; now, it is brimming over. Many cardinals, bishops, and priests are following the road to perdition, and with them, they are taking many more souls. Even less importance is being given to the Holy Eucharist. We should turn the wrath of God away from us by our own efforts. If you ask His forgiveness with a sincere heart, He will pardon you.”
Many people at the time rejected this second message as being entirely implausible. How could Our Lady, of all people, claim that cardinals, bishops, and priests were on the road to damnation? From our perspective of sixty years later, however, we can see that this message contained a prophetic truth that would never have been suspected in the 1960s. The Church has been rocked in recent decades by the revelations of the evil abuses perpetrated by bishops and priests alike. No one foresaw this possibility in 1965, leading many to dismiss Conchita’s announcement as a human fabrication.
The Prophecies of Garabandal
According to the visionaries, after a period of tribulation, the Warning and Miracle will occur in the same year. Conchita has described the Warning as a “correction of conscience” during which everyone in the world will be given a revelation of the state of their souls before God. We will see the consequences of our sins and will feel sorrow for them. The Warning will be a moment of great grace for mankind, a true penetration of the Holy Spirit into our inmost hearts, but it will be a traumatic event when we recognize the gravity of our sins and our distance from God.
The Miracle will take place in Garabandal within a year of the Warning. Our Lady has revealed the date to Conchita, who will announce it eight days in advance. In 1971, while talking to a group of Americans, she offered this revealing information: “It will take place on or between the eighth and sixteenth of March, April or May. It will not happen in February or June. It will be on a Thursday at 8:30 p.m. It will coincide with a great ecclesiastical event in the Church. It will be on the Feast-day of a young martyred saint of the Eucharist.”
Following the Miracle, humanity will have the opportunity to amend its ways and return to the Lord. If humanity continues to pursue the godless materialism that we are currently pursuing, then a terrible Chastisement will fall on the world.
Indications that the events are at hand
Apart from the specific indications given by Conchita regarding the date of the Miracle, the visionaries made a number of other statements about the fulfilment of the prophecies (details can be found online at various websites such as www.garabandal.org and http://www.garabandal.ie/our-ladys-prophesies/).
The prophecies will be fulfilled at the time of an important Synod
Our Lady told Conchita that the prophecies would come to pass at a time when an important Synod was being held in the Church. This fact has been transmitted reliably to us by Mother Nieves Garcia, head of Conchita’s boarding school in the aftermath of the visions. In an interview, Mother Nieves Garcia stated that the Virgin told Conchita that an important Synod will be held just before the events take place. When Conchita confided the story to her aunt about 1962, the aunt asked, “Do you refer to a council?” (the Vatican Council was just beginning at this time). Conchita replied, “No, the Virgin didn’t say the council, she said Synod, and I think Synod is a small council.” As Mother Nieves Garcia remarked, nobody had even heard of a Synod in the early 1960s; it seems impossible that a twelve-year-old girl could talk about something so new in the life of the Church; in addition, Conchita defined the Synod quite accurately as a “small council”.
Pope Paul VI established the Synod of Bishops in September 1965, just two months before the final apparition in Garabandal. Since that time, the Synod has met every few years. Evidently, Our Lady was not referring to one of these regular gatherings of the Synod. After all, a revelation that a prophecy will come to pass on a year in which a regularly scheduled event occurs is hardly a revelation at all. But Conchita was told that the Synod in question would be an “important” one, and the current Synod on Synodality is certainly that. For the first time ever, it will be a Synod with a worldwide dimension. Every diocese is inviting its faithful to participate. The level of consultation and dialogue will be on a scale never seen before in the history of the Church. The process has already begun, will continue during various phases over the coming months, and culminate next year in Rome. Since the Synod of Bishops was instituted in 1965, there has been no other more likely candidate for the “important Synod” that – in the words of Mother Nieves Garcia – would constitute a “pre-Warning”.
After the Pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI
On June 3, 1963, as Conchita made her way to the church to pray for the soul of Pope John XXIII who had just died, she heard the voice of Our Lady saying, “After this pope, there are only three left. Then it will be the end of times.” Soon after, the Virgin Mary specified to Conchita that there would also be a fourth pope who would “govern the Church for a very short time”. This last prediction is remarkable because it was fulfilled in the thirty-three-day papacy of John Paul I, thus supporting the reliability of the rest of the prophecy of the popes from Our Lady. In fact, the short pontificate of John Paul I can be taken as a sign that the first affirmation of Our Lady is also true: that after the third pope (Benecict XVI), the end of times will begin.
Many commentators have discussed the meaning of “end of times”. As Fr. José Luis Saavedra remarks, we have no reason to think that the world will cease to exist, or that there will be no more popes after this time. Rather, the Church will enter the decisive period of her history in which the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph, as foretold at Fatima.
The Warning: After World Tribulation
The visionaries describe this period of tribulation in various ways. As stated earlier, Russia will unexpectedly invade part of the free world. In a number of statements, the girls describe the tribulation as involving the “return” of communism. In the 1960s, there was no sign of communism going away anytime soon. In fact, at that point, it was attaining its greatest level of global influence. For the girls to say that the tribulation would involve the “return” of communism indicates that they had been told of future events that would take place after communism had in some sense “gone away”. From our point of view in 2022, that all makes perfect sense. The collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s marked the demise of the global leader of communism, the entity that had spread its errors throughout the entire world.
The attack by Russia on Ukraine could be interpreted as a manifestation of this “return” of communism. Putin, as an official of the KGB, was no mere functionary of the old communist regime. His boss, Yuri Andropov, ordered the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, and Putin has continued to protect the KGB since taking autocratic rule in Russia. From his public statements, it is clear that Putin hankers after the power once exercised by Russia over the countries of the old Soviet Union.
In a real sense, communism “returns” with the megalomaniac behaviour of Vladimir Putin. However, there is a broader sense in which communism has begun to figure once again prominently in world affairs. Cultural Marxism, as manifested especially by critical race theory, gender ideology and radical feminism, has Western culture in its death grip. In recent decades, countries like Ireland have rejected the moral principles of the bible that were once enshrined in their Christian heritage. In their place, they have wholeheartedly embraced the worldview of cultural Marxism, enacting laws that allow permissive abortion and “marriage” between people of the same sex.
Communism rears its head not only in the affairs of nations, however. Bishops and theologians have become utterly contaminated as well. The chairman of the German Bishop’s Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing, stated recently that Church teaching was wrong regarding the inadmissibility of sex outside of marriage or between homosexuals. He claimed that sexual activity of this sort was perfectly fine from a moral point of view if carried out responsibly. In January, Cardinal Hollerich, the man that Pope Francis has placed in charge of the Synod on Synodality, stated that Church teaching on homosexuality is “false”. These are shocking examples of senior figures in the Church who have abandoned biblical anthropology and replaced it with a viewpoint that is based purely on the atheistic mores of contemporary culture.
Final Words
There are other indications that the events are at hand. The visionaries stated that they would occur when churches would be closed and the faithful would be prevented from receiving the sacraments, which is something that has happened for the first time in history on a global level because of the pandemic.
If the prophecies of Garabandal are indeed at the point of fulfilment, what should we do? Well one thing we shouldn’t do is waste time trying to work out in detail the exact date of the Miracle. Much effort has been wasted on this task during the past sixty years. It is sufficient to be aware that the events will occur during the lifetimes of many of us. After all, Conchita is already seventy-two years old and she has been entrusted with announcing the date to the world. Our primary response, surely, should be to heed the messages entrusted to the girls: that our days be centred on prayer, penance, and the Eucharist, and that we live uprightly. If we do this, then we can play our part in protecting the world from the Chastisement.
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Agree with all but your assesment of Putin. As you say communism, in its cultural sense is rife in the so called free world. Just because Putin was KGB doesn’t make him a communist now. On that basis a significant minority of the German parliament, being ex stasi, would be communist.
I’m more inclined to share Oliver Stone’s assessment of Putin as being a bullwark against the globslist communist West. I may even go further and state that Putin is a good Christian man.
Your account appears sane and honest, and I thank you for that. Are you a Catholic? And your adult children, are they Catholic too?
Just wondering.
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The miracle and warning will happen during the same week. After conchita announces miracle, the warning will soon follow. Use your brains people. If the warning happens on its own, then we would already know the date of Miracle and wouldn’t need Conchita to announce it 8 days before!!!!
What I am about to write I’m sure will enrage some of you. Some (if you see yourself in some of my words) will even doubt any of this is true. To that I say, you have the right to believe me or not.
So, at the onset, let me state the following:
1. My accounts are based on actual events. Names, of course, do not appear for the obvious reasons
2. My accounts are not to negate the importance of prayer or beliefs
3. My accounts below are not to sway anyone’s personal belief system or launch a debate on the topic of Garabandal, but, rather, to share a viewpoint and account of events that probably have never been offered before in this manner
4. I believe in God, Jesus, Mary, and Heaven
5. I pray
6. I am not perfect
7. I am not bitter—just honest, and I tell it like I see it
8. When I became an adult, I decided to live my life by the 10 Commandments and the Golden Rule and to try to learn to not worry about anything that was out of my own, personal control
9. If sharing my accounts below will help even one child or prevent on parent from repeating some of the madness you will read, then this was well worth the time to type…..so here goes:
Starting in the 1970s, my family was part of one of the Garabandal seers’ very close, personal group (not an exaggeration). As a very young child—and up until my late teen years—here is what I encountered:
1. Weekly holy hours (at the seer’s house) where the rosary was prayed for hours. We would arrive back home well past a reasonable bed time
2. Garabandal “rosary rallies” (usually monthly) where for hours hundreds of people would pray the rosary—each one for a different intention (not a decade for a different intention, but a whole rosary for whatever and how many intentions the ‘organizer’ deemed was needed that day).
3. Special Garabandal-related events (usually monthly) that were organized to continue to spread the message. These larger events would be held in my state and out of state—where we often traveled for hours.
4. On many occasions (about once a month) there were Garabandal-related special gatherings at my family’s house, and I was forced to continue to watch the same 18mm or 16mm film of Garabandal—the very same film that was shown at any of the other aforementioned events above. Don’t quote me on the mm size, but some of you may recall back then that films were on these big reels—which eventually over time had the audio warble and the video flicker. I always found it ironic that while I had to wear my Catholic school uniform skirt with rips and pins holding the pleats together because we couldn’t afford to purchase a new skirt since we were on food stamps at times, there was always food that was purchased and prepared in large quantities for the attendees at our house—food that also included sheet cakes from the local store for dessert. It would have been considered outright rude if one didn’t serve coffee and dessert as well!
5. And let’s not forget the pedophiles that were at these events: On one occasion one of them (another member of the seer’s very close, personal group—not an exaggeration) purposely approached me from behind to stretch out the top of my t-shirt to see if I had ‘bloomed’ yet—this took place at one of the holy hours at the seer’s house –right in her kitchen
And throughout all of those years, I watched the following unfold and/or experienced:
1. At the more public, larger gatherings, people would always clamber over each other and push and shove each other—actually get nasty with each other—so that they could ‘touch’ the seer…it was pure madness—and these were Christians?
2. At a smaller gathering at the seer’s house, I actually saw one attendee go over to her phone to write down her phone number (her number was unlisted). Back then, there would always be a clear plastic ‘tab’ on your phone on the wall and underneath the tab you would write your phone number on a little white strip of paper—why the phone company felt people needed to write their own number on their phone is beyond me—but I digress.
3. Adults constantly pulled out calendars to try to guess the dates of any of the events within the ‘message’ that was always being communicated as ‘occurring very soon’. These adults would argue and fiercely debate each other regarding their respective dates
4. The seer mentioned back then that only bee’s wax candles would burn during the Warning or the Chastisement (if they came), so I watched my family purchase bee’s wax candles in droves. Oh, yeah, let’s not forget about the blue, mega-gallons of distilled water or dried beans that were stored in the basement that would be needed just in case food supplies were limited during these events
5. Constantly being picked on at my Catholic grade school and high school because the town thought my family members who were spreading the message were causing undue hysteria
6. My Catholic schools not allowing the ‘message’ to be shared in class because the Church did not support the events at the time. I was further mocked and reminded by fellow Catholics that, “See, even the Church doesn’t sanction the message.”
7. Never really dreaming of what I wanted to be growing up, because I was constantly hearing how the world is so bad (“the cup is running over”, etc.), and believing that I would probably not have a future to look forward to
8. The seer said during these years that on the day of the Warning, everything would ‘stop’—even planes in mid-air. I remember always hoping and praying I wouldn’t be on a plane, or train, or anything that could eventually crash or drop during the Warning or soon after it was over
9. Watching my family members purposely mention their close, very personal relationship with the seer (that truly did exist) to everyone and anyone that would listen at any and all events—as if it were some sort of badge of honor or somehow elevated them to some higher level of being…or perhaps absolve them of their sins…please!
10. Watching my family members who were spreading the ‘message’ for the sake of mankind one minute be sitting with the seer and looking so humble to be in her presence, but then in another minute—on too many occasions to count over my lifetime—emotionally and physically abuse us.
I could go on and on, but I won’t.
And, now, more than 50 years later, here’s what I know today to also be true:
1. 90% of the seer’s close, original personal group of soldiers spreading the message have passed—may they all being resting in peace. I wonder if they now know the date that is “surely coming very soon.” These very same people argued for years and were so very confident in their belief that they figured out the right day between this month or that month that aligned with a less known saint in a year between x and y…. I can’t even begin to count the number of dates I have overheard over the past 50 years. Dates all of them were so sure they would witness….all dates that have come and passed without note
2. The pedophile has passed as well—I do hope God had mercy on his soul
3. I am a successful adult, measuring success as:
a. I put myself through college (no handouts or grants or scholarships)
b. Paid for my own wedding
c. Married a devoted and loving man. Together, we have overcome all hardships that have come our way and are grateful for the blessings we have in our lives. We are hard workers and have raised two wonderful adults that we hope will bring forth goodness into society and live happy and productive lives. We’ve sacrificed and worked hard. Most importantly, I am proud that we broke the cycle of emotional and physical abuse we both endured as children—something we pledged to accomplish.
d. We didn’t force our children to subscribe to any particular belief system that was not part of the true basics of Christianity, and we showed through examples and expressed our desire that they always remember those who have less than them and help others whenever possible
4. If my family members had spent half the time doing simple things together (we never even went on any vacation as a family—no exaggeration), instead of driving all over creation for years to this rally or that rally or Garabandal event and spending hours and hours constantly praying and not spending any quality time laughing together, talking together, or spending precious hours truly building relationships, then, perhaps, our family tree’s branches would be stronger than they are today.
5. The bee’s wax candles were never lit have long been gone in the trash. The same goes for the blue, mega-gallons of water and dried beans.
6. I still see the madness—50 years later—of adults trying to figure out the exact date(s) of the events supposedly foretold at Garabandal. Good luck with that….many have come before you and many will come after you…trust me
7. The morphing of the ‘message’ over the past 50 years. I also find it so very sad that now the details are being conveniently altered to answer why certain things have not come to pass.
Remember the old children’s story, The Emporer’s Clothes. Just because a story is repeated by millions of people, doesn’t mean it’s factual.
In closing, if people would just spend more time with their families…turn off the internet, the cell phone; turn down the hysteria and stop spreading a message that even in today’s internet society has not received any updates from the seers. The time you spend could spend with your families would leave more of an imprint on their hearts than any message from 60 years ago.
To the poster named “Just Me,”
I cannot help but appreciate your honesty and impressions as to how your childhood with Garabandal and beyond has affected the way you order your life today. However, it may not translate to how millions of other may have been impacted by the facts and events surrounding Garabandal. So what may have caused you dismay by such a personal attachment, may not be what message or graces flowed for others. Your sincere message deserves some response from those who read it (although hard to guess how many there are on this site), so I will elaborate a bit as to what strikes me from your words. (your quotes are bracketed >> <>At the more public, larger gatherings, people would always clamber over each other and push and shove each other—actually get nasty with each other—so that they could ‘touch’ the seer…it was pure madness—and these were Christians?<>Adults constantly pulled out calendars to try to guess the dates of any of the events within the ‘message’ that was always being communicated as ‘occurring very soon’. These adults would argue and fiercely debate each other regarding their respective dates.<>The seer mentioned back then that only bee’s wax candles would burn during the Warning or the Chastisement… The seer said during these years that on the day of the Warning, everything would ‘stop’—even planes in mid-air…. I still see the madness—50 years later—of adults trying to figure out the exact date(s)<>Weekly holy hours (at the seer’s house) where the rosary was prayed for hours. We would arrive back home well past a reasonable bed time… ………..because the town thought my family members who were spreading the message were causing undue hysteria…<> I am a successful adult, measuring success as: a. I put myself through college (no handouts or grants or scholarships) b. Paid for my own wedding ……………………… We didn’t force our children to subscribe to any particular belief system that was not part of the true basics of Christianity, and we showed through examples and expressed our desire that they always remember those who have less than them and help others whenever possible.<<
Well your accomplishments are laudable, so long as the word “successful” is not applied too broadly. Some poor child born in an alcoholic home filled with bitterness and no love, yet survives, he/she may be a far greater success in many ways. As to your children, I am sure you and your wife were kind, loving, patient and understanding parents and thank you for that. However, I cannot ascribe to your views on religion. Teaching one’s child about Jesus and the Catholic Church is not “force,” it is the highest measure of love one can provide. Truth does not change, just because it was misused in some cases. The Four Last Things will always be true — heaven, hell, death and judgment. As a parent, I believe I must be a Christian guide to my children until the day I die. Not demanding, not harping, but loving in every way possible. What is more important than this? Nothing.
——— Again, I very much appreciate your sharing your world with us. I do not mean to sound like I am all right and you are wrong in many ways. No, I am not judging anyone. I just wanted to share my thoughts on some of what you said. All the best.
Garabandal is pretty cool 😎
Will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
Be even cooler if they hung Christmas lights on the Pines for Christmas this year 😎😎😎
It would be so wonderful to for this event to happen in this world the way everything is going on now. Families are being torn apart. Morals are all but gone. Less importance is given to the Holy Eucharist and Church attendance. We need more faith and hope. I believe we are all starving for that.
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Great job, Anonymous! Oodles of information in one long page. You know me so won’t be surprised to see a correction. What is different is that there is only one. But I think its important to correct, “After this pope, there are only three left. Then it will be the end of times.” Conchita, was monolingual in 1963 (not counting the prayers she and her friends said following Father Luis Andreu. Her “tres mas antes del final de los tiempos” sounds better in English as “only three more until the end times.” Your “the end of times” sounds like the end of a era. Conchita spoke of the beginning of an era. Why important to change? “The end times” is a common expression. In a short period of time recently, a couple different cardinals used that expression. I have never heard or seen “the end of times” anywhere except by Garabandal promoters (among whom you are one of the best) in their citing what Conchita said about the popes. I doubt that the Blessed Virgin would talk about something new without an explanation to be relayed to us by Conchita. I fear that some, especially end time experts including Protestants, on hearing this “strange” expression might wonder what nonsense we are talking about, and be turned away from learning more about these events which are designed to change the course of history.
I have a lengthy paper prepared on this that I will send if you like. I don’t include it all here because few might be interested. You will have seen, “the end of the times” in other Garabandal articles. Just as bad for the same reasons.
Thanks for your perspectives here. I am captivated by Garabandal. I cannot remember, but is there something in the messages that is the main reason that Garabandal has not been approved by the Church or deemed as “worthy of belief?” Or is it of another matter? We know Padre Pio gave it his “endorsement.” ————— What is interesting here, is Conchita is giving us a time in advance to expect a miracle to occur. Of all the well known Marian apparitions (or Jesus, such as with Faustina) Fatima is the only other one I can think of that prophesies an exact date in advance. That magnified what occurred on Oct. 13th by a hundred fold, imo.
And it does not concern me when certain prophecies fail with well-accepted holy visionaries or even with many saints, because as I was told, the Lord does not want us to be totally dependent on man but on Christ. He shows us even these “chosen ones” are not without sin or error, so never to lose sight that only faith in God is guaranteed never to fail us. Having said that, I still see Garabandal as a gift from heaven and cannot understand why they would have such a direct prophesy if it was not meant to be.
Interesting though it is wrong about Russia starting an “unprovoked invasion on one of the largest countries in Europe, almost precipitating a global disaster with their reckless bombing of an enormous nuclear reactor on the night of March 3rd.” Ukraine has been bombing it’s people for 8 years and was told to stop or be engaged in armed retaliation. And Russia didn’t bomb a nuclear reactor. Ukraine Nazi military forces tried to to escalate things with the hope NATO would then finally get involved. They even cut off the power supply to the reactor so that Russian forces had to run power generators to supply electricity to the cooling towers or else a disaster would have occurred.
As a Ukrainian I am sad to see this kind of distorted thinking is prevalent. The Russian Patriarch has called Putin a “gift from heaven”. He has explicitly said that ” the West..” (as if everyone there had an amorphous sameness) “has made a religion out of Human Rights”. Presumably the Ten Commandments have nothing to do with human dignity and such rights. The Russian media has poured bile on the West’s” supposed obsession with gay rights and trans rights . This is uncritically echoed by conservative Catholics. Russian Orthodoxy conspires with murder, rape, systemic killing of civilians, and has chosen to believe this is all western propaganda. The Russian Orthodox Patriarch widely considered a
a former KGB agent) has broken the first Commandment and elevated Power, the Army and Putin to a Divinity. Ukrainians have not bombed themselves. They are not Nazis. Pray, exercise discernment and … I would suggest.. remove your hideous post.
This is not true. Ukraine has not been bombing its own people for eight years. It has been defending its own territory against Russian supported insurgents. The neo-Nazi faction in Ukraine polled 2 percent of the vote. Russia did bomb a nuclear reactor. How can anyone on this page believe the lies Putin’s evil gangster republic is selling its own people? In a Jewish poll, 5percent of Ukrainians said they would not accept Jews as fellow citizens. The figure for Russia was 14 percent. Russia has one of the worst records for anti Semitic criminality. The word “pogrom” is Russian. Hitler modelled the Nazi party on the Bolshevik rule. Russia is not a country as we understand that word. It is a Babel of peoples, languages, tribes and religions ruled by the nastiest association of gangsters, thieves, murderers and racketeers outside prisons.
So refreshing to see another person paying attention to the reality of the situation. Ukraine is the epicenter of corruption since Hussein’s interference in 2014, putting a puppet in to hide the money laundering and human trafficking operations. Putin may not be an altar boy, but he despises the NWO globalists and is tired of them using him as their scapegoat. We cannot rely on the media to tell us anything but lies and when you do your own research, you cannot help but to see the truth.
I knew Mari-Loki and she did not doubt that she had the apparitions, but she said that they happened so long ago that sometimes it seemed as if they happened to someone else. She said this when she was in her early twenties.
For those who are interested in learning ( and asking questions ) about the apparitions, messages, and upcoming “ Warning & Miracle” spoken about by our Blessed Mother at Garabandal, Spain. Visit Facebook’s largest Garabandal site ! The only site on the internet Conchita speaks to directly !
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ps. I am posting this article on my FB page today, for my 76,000 + readers.
Good to see you here, and thank you for posting this in your fb initiative. Let’s help save many souls!
Thank you Glenn
Thank you for this information. God Bless you!
The Russian attack was not “unprovoked.” The Ukrainian Army has been shelling the Donbass for eight years, and the UN has documented 14,000 civilian deaths due to the shelling. And the nuclear plant was not shelled by the Russians. A single administrative building was hit by a rocket propelled grenade, and a fire was extinguished. The IAEA reported there was no danger to the reactor.
Russian propaganda. Hopefully the consecration will correct the lies.
Pope Francis just announced that he has asked all the Catholic Bishops of the entire world to join him in Consecrating Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This story was just broken by my Michael Brown, the American creator of the greatest website in the world featuring Catholic and Spiritual news from around the entire earth. If this happens and succeeds Papa Francesco would be first Holy Father to do so since Mother made that special request at Fatima, Portugal in 1917. PRAY! PRAY! PRAY!
An excellent article and many thanks to Michael Brown of spiritdaily.com for posting this on the most amazing website on the entire planet. I concur with many comments made throughout this article. The pandemic has been used very effectively to take away both our religious and personal freedoms. Many think that the vaccine is the mark of the beast found in the Holy Bible’s Book of Revelation. It is not the mark of the beast but this sinister pandemic is a trial run before the actual real mark on the right hand or forehead. We live at a time when confusion reigns in the world and the Church. Brothers and Sisters in Christ look up for your redemption draws near and the day of
our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ draws nearer. The day and the hour of Christ’s Second Coming is only known by Almighty God.
PRAY! PRAY! PRAY!
I believe Garabandal is authentic. Perhaps we could see and hear a fresh and new interview with Conchita…is that even possible ? Who could do such a thing?
I have known her for 29 years, as close friends she only speaks through my facebook Garabandal pages (in 14 languages). Her March 2020 statement was given to me to distribute, after I requested a comment from her on the Pandemic. I worked in the NY Garabanal Center with Joey, as the Director of Public Relations,thats how I know her.
Here’s where to find me: https://www.facebook.com/groups/163674987784/
Thank you for this great synopsis. With your permission I would like to post a link to my blog garabandalnews.org
God bless
Pete
I can attest to the authenticity of the Garabandal apparitions by the following: about forty years ago while visiting my sister I noticed a terrible-looking mole on her right temple and commented about it appearing to be alive. Her response was that she had an appointment to see her doctor about this mole that was growing on her temple. Since I had a relic of Garabandal (a piece of the missel Our Lady kissed) I suggested that we place the relic on the mole and pray an Our Father, Hail Mary, and a Gloria. We did then gave it no further thought. The next day she called to tell me that the ugly mole had disappeared completely with no trace of it remaining. She cancelled her doctor’s appointment since there was nothing for the doctor to look at. That mole has never returned. That convinced both of us that Garabandal is real.
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We know the devil has some powers to manifest himself in supernatural ways here on earth. So, yes, visionaries and their witnesses can be connived by manifestations or speak prophetically not from God. But does it follow when confronted with enormous miracles such as at Lourdes, Fatima or Rue du Bac, that prayerful devout Catholics are still unable to discern anything with faith and reason and know it is from God? Surely not.
Throughout history God provides signs and wonders for the benefit of the faithful and to challenge the unbeliever.
So given the historical facts that we know of Fatima, who here can honestly say nothing supernatural happened on October 13, 1917? Only an atheist. The greatest public miracle since the Resurrection was meant for all Christians to ponder what the Virgin said over and over to the children, “the world must repent, do penance for its sins, and pray the rosary.” For a Catholic to say to oneself, I do not have to believe those three things, so I can somewhat ignore the message —- that Catholic is accountable to what has been revealed to him, whether he wants to deal with it or not.
It is also true that even the real prophets and saints have been wrong on occasion with their prophecies. But God may have intended that, as none on earth are perfect. And that is a lesson in itself. So I can understand why many faithful choose not to pay heed to any secrets or prophecies coming from the Garabandal visionaries. No problem. But what I cannot accept is how a Catholic, or any Christian, can say what these girls experienced may not have been from God or meant anything for us to ponder. This great miracle has some meaning for us all.
Well said.
Thanks to all who have left comments here. Unfortunately I will not have time this week to reply to further comments. I have no doubt that many comments that are not entirely fair to Garabandal will continue to be written, many of which are based on a general dismissal of Garabandal as sensationalistic or because it is still unapproved by the Church.
As a final word, can I say that it is very understandable that people find visions and prophecies of this sort difficult to accept. People wonder why the simple practice of prayer and reception of the sacraments should not be enough for us. Why would Heaven need to intervene with dramatic stuff of this sort?
I absolutely sympathise with this point of view and have a natural aversion myself to visionaries and private revelations. However, over the course of history there is no doubt that the Lord has felt the need to intervene with fairly dramatic visions. Just think of Margaret Mary Alacoque, Sister Faustina or Padre Pio.
It took over 70 years for the devotion to the Sacred Heart to be approved. Padre Pio was under interdict for many years. Sister Faustina’s work and the Divine Mercy devotion spent decades in obscurity and were even condemned by Rome at one point. The fact that Garabandal is in a sort of limbo as far as official approval is concerned does not mean that it should be ignored or dismissed. Thank God Archbishop Wojtyla of Krakow (future Pope John Paul II) did not ignore or dismiss the divine mercy devotion just because Rome disapproved of it. He took a personal risk, investigated it and had the ban lifted.
Garabandal deserves attention because of the clear evidence that the supernatural was present there in those years. If, through these remarkable events, heaven was giving us a sign, shouldn’t I at least be open to it and ask what it might mean for me?
Unfortunately I will not be in a position this next week or two to answer comments or even read them. I ask that anyone out there who believes in the divine origin of the events in Garabandal would come to our aid and reply here to any comments or queries. There are sincere defenders of the integrity of the visionaries out there and your help would be appreciated.
Immaculate Mother Website – it is not “unfair to Garabandal” to fully discuss the situation and note that the church has not approved it. You are free to believe it, and you may well be right to do so, but it is not “unfair” for others to see it differently😊. Wanting something to be true does not make it true or false. It is what it is, apart from our wishes. Why I have seen is people placing too much faith in things the church has not approved – bringing to bear, as it does, its
millennia of experience in discerning such things – and then experiencing great disappointment or even loss of legitimate faith when the prophesied events do not occur. Conchita is in her 70s. If she passes on without the Warning and Miracle occurring, is there not a great risk that those who have believed so fervently despite the church’s non approval will have their faith harmed? Certainly there is that risk for some people. The church calls us to faith and reason, and both elements steer us toward reliance on the church’s judgment in such matters.
I am EXTREMELY skeptical about such “prophecies” in general, for at least 3 reasons. (1) There is a long record of people making extravagant forecasts based on them — forecasts which prove to be false. Such prophecies interested me when I first converted to the Catholic Church in the early 2000’s, so I bought a few books about them, only to read that the “Chastisement” at least was sure to come BEFORE THE YEAR 2000. As far as forecasts go, this was on par with the Fundamentalist church I grew up in “explaining” that a Biblical generation is 40 years, so the Antichrist was sure to be revealed within 40 years of the founding of the modern State of Israel. However, 1988 came and went, with only the standard small “a” antichrists in evidence. (2) The spectacular predictions tend to sound like things one would expect to be mentioned in Scripture, qualitatively different from the normal kind of growth of the Church, or even the normal kind of miracles that do take place. This no doubt contributes to the feeling that there are stylistic differences indicating they do not come from the same Author as do Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition. (3) Along with legitimate prophecies found in Sacred Scripture, they have a strong tendency to be interpreted in such a way as to make the interpreter’s enemies more demons than humans, to make the interpreter’s friends the hosts of Heaven, or at the very least to make the interpreter an Especially Important Person living in an Especially Important Time, not a mere foot soldier in the Church Militant who needs to be working out his salvation with fear and trembling.
Here’s a good rule of thumb: Doubt Marian revelations to the extent that She is claimed to say much more than, “REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND. And for Heaven’s sake, pray the Rosary!” That’s pretty much all she says in valid apparitions. It’s pretty much all we need to hear.
Well-said, Howard. The church has long and deep experience with folks who think they are seeing or hearing supernatural beings in a direct way different from everyone else. It has become skilled in sorting them out. Every week, a bishop may have a claim in his diocese of someone with “special messages” or visions. Almost all are not from God. So, a Catholic must trust the church. I have seen numerous families pursue “apparitions” or other forms of alleged special knowledge. They can be thrilling, but also damaging to true faith and to family relationships and friendships, as can any dubious obsession. Garabandal may be true, but the reasons you give suggest maybe not. And the church has not approved it, so caution is warranted.
(I hasten to add that I have visited Garabandal and found nothing there to suggest that it is false or hyped for ulterior motives. I also know Conchita, a lovely and seemingly normal person. Her co-visionary, Mari Loli, had doubts about what she recalled of the experience, and I would expect a reasonable visionary to herself suspend judgment about the nature of the visions until the church decided, much as Bernadette and the Fatima children did. I just don’t know the answer, and the church’s uncertainty is therefore mine).
To ANONYMOUS: I wish I had the time (I do not) to converse with these sites and those like you who search deep into divine revelation and truths. Yes, I have seen that Garabandal movie which was good, but I think a number of words or points they make quickly only will resonate with those who are familiar with this story. There are some very good documentaries I find more fascinating.
On youtube “Garabandal warnings, Our Lady’s messages and warnings” 1 hr 27 mins long and I only got through the first 30 minutes thus far, but it is very worthwhile. It was produced in English in 2002 but with all kinds of footage of the four young girls 1961 – 1965 during the apparitions and walking backwards fast down the very rocky mountain path while in ecstasy looking up at the Virgin. Many more miraculous accounts, interviews with eye witnesses, etc. I hope to find the time to watch the rest, but I am glad I found this article and enjoyed your writings. So many factual, engrossing Catholic miracles to research and then try to deny the presence of God. One cannot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tCAwgmmTuk
To the poster from Immaculate Mother Website. I want to thank you for answering various challenges or claims with well researched information from credible sources. Garabandal is without doubt, from God. Whether the devil crept into in on some small scale causing scandal is almost irrelevant. The miracles that surround these four young girls and their equally convicting words from Our Lady hold the evidence of supernatural origin. How can anyone ignore such manifestations from heaven. Fatima, Lourdes, Zeitoun, Egypt, Knock, Ireland, et al. It is as that title of a book by a Protestant reads: “Evidence that demands a Verdict.” I love this excerpt below of the Garabandal visions where these four young visionaries perform an undeniable act that cannot be explained in the natural.
>>> The onlookers soon began to give the girls numerous religious objects for Our Lady to kiss, or, when the girls were not present, they left the objects on tables next to the girls’ houses which were placed there for that very purpose. There was no way for the girls to know to whom each article belonged. Even so, during the ecstasies, with their faces always turned upwards and with their eyes fixed on heaven, guided by the vision, in all of the thousands of times that they returned rosaries, medals, wedding rings and other religious objects to their owners, they never made a mistake. <<<
Wow, it’s so good to read a positive comment! That type of incident you mention – where the girls returned religious articles to their owners – is so important, thanks for mentioning it. This happened hundreds of times. The film “Garabandal, Only God Knows” (https://www.garabandalthemovie.com/en/) shows a couple of these incidents very beautifully, but what they show is only the tip of the iceberg.
Thanks Jehanne and God bless you.
I personally do not believe in this Garbandal apparitions or prophecies because they were a “sense-sational” – sorry – anyway, I like apparitions that have actions and miracles DURING the apparition – like Our Lady of Fatima – the Miracle of The Sun – that was like the final gift of Our Lady to us. I think Garbandal is false because nothing happened of any consequence during the apparition.
So if the blessed mother doesn’t sing and dance and perform miracles for you then you call them false? The blessed mother answered my prayers for a home, a job and help with my elderly in laws during covid. There was no spinning sun or choirs of angels yet I know, in my life, they were miracles. Maybe you need to focus on God’s small miracles and stop looking for large miracles. It’s called faith for a reason
You obviously do not know this story at all ! There were daily miracles of when the girls were in ecstatic states. ( Falling on rocks unharmed, walking the rocky cow paths without looking where they were going , men couldnt lift the girls off the ground, but the girls could lift each other, they returned thousands of sacramental items after Mary kissed them, never seeing who the owners were. Not to mention the undeniable appearance of the Eucharist appearing on Conchita’s tongue ,announce 15 days in advance by Mary ! Come to my facebook page and learn the truth ! ” The Message of Garabandal”.
I knew Joey Lomangino, who knew the girls and Padre Pio and promoted Garabandal for decades. He was told by Padre Pio that he would receive his sight back at the Miracle (he had been blinded by an accident as a child). He died years ago, sightless.
Putting so much stock in Fr. Saavedra is not persuasive. Clearly, he believed in the authenticity of Garabandal, but he is not the church and the church has never approved it the way it has Fatima, etc. It may be true – I have no special knowledge – but I wouldn’t rely on it too much because the church has been dubious about it. Even the remarks attributed to Conchita are doubtful. To suppose that, as a boarding student away from home as a teenager she never heard of a Synod, even as one was going on contemporaneously, strains credulity. She is an intelligent person, steeped in the church and the world of faith from early childhood. I bet even she acknowledges the possible role of suggestion and confabulation in her experience. The church is very aware of these real distorting possibilities – they appear with great frequency in human life, and in the life of the church. The church is always careful to eliminate these possible explanations. Apparently, it has not done so with Garabandal because it has not approved it.
Better to focus on what’s in front of us today, especially the people in front of us today, with faith and reason. Apparitions and predictions of warnings and miracles are thrilling and a relief from the ordinariness of our lives. But it is in ordinariness that sanctity and charity are found, not in dramatic – and possibly never-arriving – – events.
Thanks for that comment Abuelo. What you say is all very reasonable, but there is another point of view that is also reasonable.
There are two things that nearly everyone who writes an article on Garabandal has to contend with. Firstly, people mention the case of Joey Lomangino as discrediting Conchita (and the entire authenticity of Garabandal) because Conchita reported that Our Lady said he would regain his sight on the day of the miracle, but Joey is already dead.
Secondly, people refer to the negative statement issued by the diocesan commission of investigation.
Neither of these objections is sufficient, in my view, when we consider the vast number of indicators that point to the authenticity of Garabandal. First of all, we have an enormous wealth of eye-witness accounts of events that defy explanation. Many of these events are properly documented by doctors, psychiatrists and other professional people. We can’t just dismiss them out of hand because of the Joey Lomagino case, nor the negative evaluation of the diocesan commission.
This is all the more true when we consider that the diocesan investigation has been discredited, in the first place by the principal diocesan investigator himself! Dr Morales was emphatic in reversing his opinion, declaring the authenticity of the apparitions, and furthermore revealing that he was making this statement with the permission fo the bishop himself. Even without Fr. Saavedra’s detailed critique of the methodology of the diocesan investigation, the testimony of Dr Morales should be sufficient to stop us giving too much importance to that diocesan statement.
Ed Kelly, a great gentleman who spent some years in Garabandal, has spent a lifetime trying to convince people to give Garabandal a fair hearing, and to stop quoting a statement by a diocesan investigation that simply does not stand up to scrutiny. Ed has written a book on his experiences, and I think it is fair to say that he has been hugely frustrated by the way people quote an old diocesan statement and then close the shutters, ignoring all of the other positive evidence for Garabandal.
This article does not need to place too much stock on the work of Fr. Saavedra. His work is impressive, but the truth of Garabandal is supported above all by the supernatural events that happened over thousands of visions in those years beginning in 1961. It is also supported by the impressive lives, devotion and reserve displayed by Conchita, Mari-Loli and Jacinta. Furthermore, it is supported by saints such as Mother Teresa and Padre Pio, who both believed in the truth of the apparitions. Padre Pio, indeed, on more than one occasion, publicly indicated that he had supernatural knowledge of the authenticity of the visions.
To return to Joey Lomagino. His death is often seen as “proof” of the unreliability of Conchita. This is unfair when we consider the vast number of supernatural events that were publicly witnessed involving Conchita, events that defy explanation. We can’t dismiss her claim to have seen Our Lady on the basis of the one “problem” of Joey, ignoring all those other miraculous signs, signs given by heaven so that we would believe. A year or so ago, Marc Conza, an acquaintance of Joey, revealed on Catholic Stand that he had reliable insider testimony that Joey had voluntarily offered the healing of his eyesight back to God for the good of souls.
It is ironic that the case of Joey is often taken as a reason to not believe in Garabandal, after he had spent a lifetime promoting the place with such zeal! As you know, Abuelo, Joey was a walking miracle. His olfactory nerve was completely severed, yet his sense of smell was permanently restored by the intercession of Padre Pio, and then Padre Pio sent him to Garabandal! Miraculously healed by a saint, sent to Garabandal by the same saint, becomes the greatest apostle of Garabandal, and then at his death becomes one of the main reasons why people no longer believe in Garabandal! You couldn’t make it up.
I absolutely agree with your last paragraph when you say, “Apparitions and predictions of warnings and miracles are thrilling and a relief from the ordinariness of our lives. But it is in ordinariness that sanctity and charity are found”. The surprising thing is that the two messages of Garabandal are exactly of this sort, to seek sanctity in charity, devotion to the Eucharist, penance and prayer. As you say, in ordinary things. You are right that it would be a big mistake to focus on the thrilling parts of Garabandal and forget the rest.
However, Garabandal, whether we like it or not, also had this revelation from heaven about the future, a revelation which is intended to aid us in dealing with the events when they happen. So, Abuelo, let us all take seriously your admonition to place our focus on daily sanctity, but let us also be fair to Garabandal and the visionaries. Their testimony (which includes the Warning and the Miracle) can’t be dismissed simply on the basis of the flawed diocesan statement, nor on the early demise of Joey. May this great man rest in peace.
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“There was no apparition either of the Blessed Virgin or of St. Michael the Archangel or of any other celestial personage. There was no message. All the phenomena which occurred have a natural explanation.”
I’m quoting the official statement of the Church on Garabandal. There was no vision. There was no message.
What is this post doing at this site? The site seems to be, in half a dozen ways, drifting towards schism.
As the article mentions, the official statement by the diocesan commission has been completely discredited, even by the central medical expert of the commission! He came out a few years later (and with the permission of the bishop of Santander) to say that the apparitions were genuine. Dr Morales clarified later that his change of heart on Garabandal was inspired by the Marian devotion of Pope John Paul II. Hardly the stuff of schism! Yet you remain fixated with a discredited statement made in the 1960s, while an awful lot has happened in the meantime which shows clearly that this statement is not the last word.
In the 1950s Padre Pio was held in suspicion and negative statements were made by the Holy Office in Rome. Do we quote these statements now when we want to give a fair appraisal of Padre Pio?
In the 1960s, the Divine Mercy devotion was condemned and suppressed by Rome. All of that was reevaluated later. Do we quote the condemnation of the 1960s nowadays when someone asks us if the Divine Mercy devotion is genuine?
Fr. Jose Luis Saavedra is a priest of the Home of the Mother. This order is the bedrock of orthodoxy and defends the perpetual virginity of Mary and the Eucharist. Fr. Jose is an avid supporter of Garabandal and knows that there is nothing in it which goes against orthodoxy. Indeed the central message of Garabandal is prayer, penance and devotion to the Eucharist. Nothing here to send the schism police into overdrive.
Would you mind specifying in what way the above post “drifts towards schism”? I find that the posts on Catholic Stand are generally orthodox and edifying, but one does read a lot of nonsense in the comments, which is hardly the fault of Catholic Stand.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta was the godmother of a child of Conchita’s. She believed in the apparitions. Padre Pio also believed and testified publicly to their authenticity. John Paul was a believer. Mother Theresa, Padre Pio, John Paul II – doesn’t sound like a schism to me
1. It is you (not the Church) who are saying the official position has been “discredited”. Neither the local bishop nor Rome has withdrawn it.
2. The other post today is yet another criticism of the Democratic Party and is at odds with Church social teaching.
3. We frequently see praise for pre-Vatican II practices such as the Latin Mass and “ad orientum”. Francis recently restricted the use of the Latin Mass on the grounds that it promotes schism. Based on what I read here, he is correct to suspect that.
4. A lot of criticism of the morality of the Covid vaccine, in conflict with what the Church currently teaches.
5. A lot of criticism of Francis. In fact I don’t think I’ve seen more than one or two articles taking his side on any issue.
OK, I only got up to 5, not “half a dozen”.
Respectful criticism of Pope Francis, criticism of the covid vaccine, love for the Latin Mass, none of these things come anywhere close to drifting towards schism. The New Testament shows us that respectful challenges to Peter by St Paul were essential for the right trajectory of the Church. Let’s not forget that the place in the world that is most in danger of schism at the moment is the German church, and they are all for the covid vaccine, the new rite of the Mass, and (publicly at least) are very positive about Pope Francis.
There is nothing in this article which “drifts towards schism”.
It is not the author of the article who is saying that the original diocesan findings have been discredited. Dr Morales, the principal medical expert, completely discredited them himself when he came out and said that he did not accept them and that in his view Our Lady had certainly appeared in Garabandal.
The doctoral dissertation of Fr. Jose Luis Saavedra also utterly discredits the diocesan statement. He shows that the investigation was biased and determined to produce a negative conclusion before it even began. If you want to adhere to an old declaration from a discredited commission, then you need to answer his points in detail.
Fr. Jose Luis, by the way, is someone who is completely loyal to Pope Francis and the magisterium of the Church. This article is based on his work. So let’s refrain from accusations of schism that are unfounded. Peace.
Not drifting towards schism. You obviously haven’t read the article. Read about St. Bernadette and all she went through before Lourdes was accepted as a true revelation from Heaven. Even as people were healed in Lourdes spring of water people still did not believe.
Captcrisis, Your translation of Bishop Pubhol’s 1967 evaluation of the apparitions is accurate. And yes, his statement is considered official and was published in Declaraciones Oficiales de la Jerarquia Sobre Garabandal (Santander Chancery 1970). But to understand its significance and importance, much is lacking. 1) you leave out the qualifying phrase, “From the declarations of those involved (the visionaries) it results: that there was no . . .” Bishop Puchol did not give any other evidence in listing his conclusions. Of the twelve official statements given (four before and seven after this one), by the nine men who have served as bishop or apostolic administrator of Santander from 1961 to the present, Puchol’s is considered by all but one of his successors as unimportant. Their own statements show this.) Isn’t the statement by the present Bishop Manuel Monje given on June 24, 20015 more important? Why would he (or his five predecesors) even issue an official statement if the one you state were the final word? Monje, like three of his immediate predecessors states that it isn’t certain whether Garabandal was of supernatural origin or not. Archbishop Carol Osoro, now Cardinal of Madrid, issued the most positive evaluation of Garabandal when serving as Apostolic Administrator of Santander in 2007.
There is much more on this if you are interested. To make it worthwhile, I would like to know why you chose Puchol’s evaluation to cite.
I’m quoting the official statement of the Church on Garabandal. There was no vision. There was no message.
The prophecy of the three popes didn’t say that a fourth pope would reign for a short time. It said that one of the three would reign for a short time.
The last pope of this prophecy was John Paul II, not Benedict XVI. Benedict’s reign was when these events were supposed to happen.
Incorrect. Please refer to any reputable source on Garabandal, especially the doctoral dissertation by Fr. Jose Luis Saavedra. Conchita was originally told by Our Lady that there would be three more popes. Then she was told that there would also be a fourth, of short duration. That Conchita received exactly this information from Our Lady (four popes, one of short duration) is well-documented and was known and discussed even before the death of Pope John Paul I.
If you are informed on the root causes of current events, you would understand that these end time birth pangs did start early in Benedict’s pontificate and even earlier. One would have to be blind not to see what is unfolding.