Since the death of Benedict XVI, some people are of the opinion that the prophecies of Garabandal are close to fulfilment. The prophecies refer to a Warning, a Miracle and a possible Chastisement on a global scale (for a summary of the content of the prophecies and an objective assessment of the reliability of the apparitions, see here).
The statement by Conchita that the Miracle would occur on a Thursday in April that coincides with the feast of a male martyr of the Eucharist has caused many people to surmise that the date of the Miracle will be April 13 this year (which falls on a Thursday). Hermengild, a Spanish saint, was beheaded by order of the king on April 13, 585, for refusing to accept the Eucharist from a heretical Arian bishop.
Could 2023 be the year? The visionaries made a number of statements about world events that would coincide with the Warning and the Miracle. Even though certain of these statements seemed extremely implausible a few years ago, in our days they appear to be coming true in striking ways. As such, these events may constitute a “pre-warning” for the Warning itself and the subsequent Miracle.
First pre-warning of the Warning – the Synod on Synodality
Our Lady told Conchita that the prophecies would come to pass at a time when an important synod was being held in the Church. Over the years, many people have been perplexed by this prophecy. Since 1965, the synod of bishops established by Pope Paul VI has met every few years. Seeing that synods have become so commonplace, people wondered how one of these gatherings could be so different that our Lady would use it as a marker to point to the Warning. Evidently, Our Lady could not have been referring to one of these regular gatherings of the synod, but to something more exceptional or unique. What could that be? Suddenly, lo and behold, in these very days, we find ourselves in the midst of a synod of extraordinary character. The Synod on Synodality is the first time that the synod has had a worldwide dimension, with a level of consultation and dialogue never seen before in the history of the Church. The process is already ongoing and will come to an end in the Fall of 2024. Since 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” for the major events foretold in Garabandal.
Second pre-warning – the death of Benedict XVI
On June 3, 1963, as Conchita made her way to the church to pray for Pope John XXIII who had just died, she heard the voice of Our Lady said, “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 short 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 last pope in the series (Benedict XVI), the end of times will begin.
Regarding the meaning of “end of times”, Fr. José Luis Saavedra remarks that we have no reason to think 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.
As long as Benedict XVI was alive, we could suppose that the fulfilment of the prophecies still remained at some point in the future. The end times would begin after he was gone. While he was still with us, we could safely assume that the events were some time away. To some people, his death on the very last day of 2022 has taken on an ominous significance. Conchita had heard, “After this pope, then it will be the end of times.” Does Benedict’s demise on the last day of 2022 mean that the “end of times” will begin in 2023? As with prophecies of this sort in general, we have no way of knowing the exact meaning of the words that are used. “Then” might allow for a period of months, or perhaps more than a year, before the events begin. The death of Benedict XVI, however, means that one of the most decisive markers regarding the date of the Warning has already been passed.
Third pre-warning – World Tribulation
The visionaries have stated that the events would occur after a period of world tribulation. Mari-Loli reported that Our Lady had revealed to her 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. The sudden invasion of Ukraine last year, as well as threats to other parts of Europe, have brought this prediction to unexpected fulfilment.
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. Thus, the prediction of the girls constitutes in a sense a two-fold prophecy: firstly, that communism will first go away, and, secondly, that it will return. From our point of view in 2023, this 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. This marked a huge blow to the fortunes of global Marxism. However, in the intervening decades, cultural Marxism has made huge inroads into Western society. This is manifested especially by critical race theory, gender ideology and radical feminism. 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 and enacted it in their laws. In a sense, then, it is accurate to say that communism went away to some extent, but has now returned to global prominence in the guise of neo-Marxism.
Other pre-warnings
Other statements by the visionaries include the claim that something would happen before the Warning to cause many people to lose faith in the authenticity of the apparitions at Garabandal. Such an event has already come to pass. On June 18, 2014, the great apostle of Garabandal, Joey Lomagino, died. Even though the day of his death was providentially the exact anniversary of the first apparition in Garabandal in 1961, the fact that he died before the Miracle caused many people to lose faith in the apparitions (for more details on this question, and for possible answers to sceptics, see here).
Other indications that the events are at hand include the prediction by the visionaries that they would occur when churches would be attacked and closed, and the faithful would be prevented from receiving the sacraments. This is something that happened for the first time in history on a global level because of the pandemic. The number of attacks on churches in Western countries such as France and the U.S. has been increasing exponentially in recent years.
Other considerations
Other considerations make people think that the events are still some time in the future. Mari-Loli is reported to have said that the Warning will take place in a year that is an even number, ruling out 2023. In addition, German author, Albrecht Weber, quoted Conchita as saying that the Pope will go to Moscow, and when he returns to the Vatican, hostilities will break out in different parts of Europe as a prelude to the Warning. Given that Pope Francis has not yet travelled to Moscow, the prophesied events may still be some way in the future.
Sometimes, however, in response to human free will, prophecies do not unfold as originally formulated. In December 2021, Pope Francis announced that he intended to visit Moscow in the near future. Preliminary talks to advance that visit were held in the Vatican at the end of 2021 with Bishop Hilarion, the head of the Russian church’s department for external relations. Then, in February 2022, Russian invaded Ukraine. Since then, repeated attempts by the Vatican to resurrect the idea of a papal visit to Moscow have run aground. Could the visionaries’ prophecy regarding Russia’s invasion of parts of Europe after a papal visit be already fulfilled by the fact that Pope Francis was single-mindedly determined to visit Moscow before the onset of hostilities in February 2022? That visit would surely have taken place but for the fact that Patriarch Kirill opposed it. Sometimes the outcome of genuine prophecies is indeed foiled or modified by human free will.
Why these prophecies and why this speculation?
Many people who were once firm adherents to the apparitions in Garabandal have lost faith in recent decades. The delay in the occurrence of the events, the death of Joey Lomangino, and the endless speculation about the date of the Miracle have led to doubt and frustration. Why did Our Lady give so many “clues” about when the events would occur? Or were Conchita and Mari-Loli simply indiscreet when they “spilled the beans” about these details? Has the endless speculation about dates damaged Garabandal?
Perhaps, though, there is a very definite heavenly plan behind these tantalising shreds of evidence. We can be sure that Conchita and Mari-Loli were being obedient instruments of Our Lady in allowing these clues to emerge. The death of Benedict XVI, the ongoing extraordinary synod, the return of communism, the unprecedented hostility to the faith in the West, the warmongering of Russia, the return of communism in the guise of neo-Marxism – all these show clearly that the time of the events is upon us. The remarkable lining up of those very things predicted by the visionaries seemed far-fetched just a few years ago. Whether the events occur in 2023, 2024 or in the coming years, we can be confident that our time of preparation is now relatively short. This gives us precious motivation to prepare for the Warning with the very tools that have been central to the message of Garabandal since the 1960s: increased personal prayer, Eucharistic devotion and recourse to the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
83 thoughts on “Garabandal: Is 2023 the Year?”
I strongly believe that the date of the warning will be on April 3rd in the year 2026. Here’s why, Jesus was the first martyr and not St. Stephen,
Butchery of the innocence, relates to Jesus. Jesus died Friday April 3rd in the year 33.
Now if you know what will happen on the warning and what we will feel and see and experience, you will know that the greatest and most holy day is Friday April 3rd.
Jesus told Conchita that the day of the Miracle will not be a feast of Our Lord or of the Virgin Mary
Is it the believers that are more ignorant of God?
Would it be the fools that on or around April 1st. celebrate the resurrection of the Son/Sun that drifted off gradually and only now jumps back and forth as the mud-bound Serpent, eEl, the Thracian/D[r]acian Dragon, sees fit? This being the year J1024, would it be the antichrists that are ignorant of the last days of the reign of Jesus/Yeh (the “night” part of the Christ; Diablos) who has emptied himself of the Spirit of God? Why would then God reveal the Great Valley of California, of the Mount of Olives, with the New Jerusalem over 144 sq km San Francisco, near the Horeb Rock now known as Moses Rock in Diablo range and the Fiery Bush, endemic Manzanita in Serpentinite, and his Nahash/Serpenter, as in Sagittarius serpentarius (Phoenix), cunningly written as Carpenter through Latin? Why would have Gad taken his proper seat already?
So, in the Bible, the time of the end is not known to anyone. And what of non catholics, who do not view the eucharist as catholics do. The Church itself has not recognized any of this either. Is it true, or much about nothing.
It is not about the end of the world. The Warning and the Miracle of Garabandal are related to the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and not with the end of the world. Nobody knows about this.
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I think it’s a normal part of human nature for us to want to figure out God’s plans for us and the details of those plans. However, as much as we may speculate, aside from receiving a direct message from Heaven, we’ll NEVER know or understand God’s plans – either for our own lives, or for the world as a whole. He is, after all, God. Maybe we should just be grateful for any piece of information He does provide and accept that we’ll never get the “whole picture” until He is ready to reveal it us. In the meantime, it may be wise for us to put our full faith and trust in Him, follow the instructions He’s given us through Mary and other saints, stick to the faith, and PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!
+JMJ+ Conchita did not say “when a ‘synod’ would happen in the Church” – she said when an “event” would occur which doesn’t happen very often in the Church…. Check your books and original, Trust-worthy Websites. Some thought it might be a new Marian Dogma…. Co-Redemptrix, for instance.
All this discussion, trying to figure out “when” – even travel agencies taking pilgrims to Garabandal promising reasons why “this is the Year!!!” Stay in a State of Grace and Pray and Trust. The Important thing is that God Wins through Mary, and Pray and Offer Sacrifices for those “who do not yet know the Love of God.” Fiat.
GOD uses the number ”3” very much in the bible, and I’m sure he’ll use it for this miracle as well. April, 2030 is the time, not 2024.Pray very often, receive the sacraments; don’t wait, become a saint now!
The Miracle of Garabandal will take place on a Thursday, on the feast of a young martyr of the Eucharist, it will not take place on Holy Thursday or on a feast of Our Lady. It will take place in the month of April. The Saint is not Spanish and his name ends in to ao.
By these data we arrive at Santo Estanislau (Estanislao in Spanish). By 2030 we will have his feast falling on a Thursday in 2024 and 2030.
I hope not the latter as that would fall in place w/ satans Agenda 2030. We will be begging for mercy or enduring much pain. Tribulation
It will not take place on Holy Thursday, nor on a feast of Our Lady. I believe that the Miracle of Garabandal will take place on April 11, 2024
Really the Warning happen after the pope visit? Instantly after the visit to Moscow? Is it not 2024?
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Thank you for your answer
Barnabe
I believe everyone is missing the point here.. a young boy a martyr of the Eucharist.. well hello isn’t april the month of the holy spirit and the Eucharist.. this leads to the ultimate martyr and redeemer jesus himself.. he is the boy you seek
The Warning will occur right after the pope’s trip to Moscow and this will happen until September 2023. I believe 2030 is too far a date for the Miracle.
I believe the Warning will occur in 2024, three months before April 11, 2024 or 3 weeks before
Profound.
I believe the prophesy was that it would be on the feast of a little known martyr of the Eucharist. Jesus is far too known for the prophesy to have meant him.
It will not be a celebration of Jesus or Our Lady, said Conchita
I remember watching the Mari Loli/Priest interview where she answered that the warning would happen in an even year, so next year could be the year when the warning and miracle take place within the same year.
Marie Julie Jahenny gives many prophecies which have 100% come true. She mentioned that a sign to be aware of is that France will experience floods that will destroy the agriculture of the country. This is a sure sign of nature that God is about to begin His purification of the world. This is the second year that France is being pummeled by summer floods. France is supposed to be the first to fall and the first to rise in God’s purification.
Prepare!!! Guns, knives, bombs, shelters will not prepare you. Only Mass, prayer, and visiting our Lord in the Eucharist can prepare you for what is to come. God bless you
The Warning and the Miracle could occur in the same year. Conchita does not recall if they are three months or three weeks apart. But she is sure that the Miracle will occur on an even year.
If this is not a false apparition it would have real and accurate predictions.
Take these prophesies seriosly repent and attend participate the sacraments of confessional and Holy Eucharist .Praised be Jesus Christ for ever -may all the Angels sing Glory to God in the Highest .God almighty be merciful to us .
Sorry for the typos. The Jesus/ Mahdi / Savior figure is one. The term starts this year 2023 as the year of the risen Christ and runs until hopefully 2041. This year is the year Easter never ends.
Well another time has come and gone….well it will be 2028 if at all for these events to happen….there is no indication if ever!!!!!!!
I don’t think it will ever happen…..looking like just false hope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Warning will take place shortly after the pope’s trip to Moscow. Already on his return from Moscow, conflicts in Europe will start that will last a short time, said Conchita, seer of Garabandal
O Vaticano já comunicou que se está a pensar seriamente numa visita a Moscovo, di Papa Francisco
Sim, na ida para a Mongólia, o papa deve passar por Moscou para abastecer o avião.
Many would like to know, on the Warning event….
What is expected of a Non-Christian (ie. Atheist, Hindu, Muslim or Jew) on receiving the warning.
Are they required to be baptised ?
For the Warning to happen, they will receive it even if they are not baptized. If they embrace the faith, they will become Catholic later
No. All humanity learns to accept the “ do unto others “ rule and all faith merged into one with a clear delineation between theology and theocracy ending global war and terrorism. Your returning Davior remains secret as per Islamic requirements for safety the the only “times” ending are that of religious leaders governing as theocrats falsely using faith, an emotional health system, as governance, a cerebral administration of civil laws. Both abortion and gay issues get tossed out of the Church where they represent theocracy not theology.
Yes, baptism is necessary, and when the warning happens, it will be clear for that soul that he or she needs to be baptized. God bless you