Our Lady of Guadalupe
A Marian apparition is an event in which the Blessed Virgin Mary is believed to have supernaturally appeared to one or more people. They are often given names based on the town in which they were reported, or on the name that was given to Mary on the occasion of the apparition. They must be determined genuine by the Church to be official apparitions. Marian apparitions sometimes are reported to recur at the same site over an extended period of time. In the majority of Marian apparitions only a few people report having witnessed the apparition. There is often a specific message or meaning to the apparitions. These are known as private revelations.
Public revelation is binding on all Christians, but private revelation is binding only on those who receive it. The Catholic Church teaches that public revelation was completed, and therefore was concluded, with the death of the last apostle (Vatican II, Dei Verbum 4), but private revelation has continued.
(See the "Theology" tab above for information about Marian Dogmas and Doctrines.)
A seven-decade rosary, each decade honoring the Seven Joys of Mary: the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Finding of Jesus in the Temple, Resurrection and Appearance to Mary, and Assumption…There is a legend that Our Lady appeared to a Franciscan novice and taught him the crown.
[Laughlin, M. F. "Crown, Franciscan." New Catholic Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 387-388.]
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Vision of 19th century visionary, Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich:
The belief that the Virgin Mary had spent her last days in the vicinity of Ephesus and that she had died there, focused attention on a nun named Anna Katherina Emmerich who had lived in the late 18th century (1774-1820). The efforts to find the Mary's House were greatly influenced by her detailed description of the Virgin Mary's coming to Ephesus, her life and her last home there and the characteristics of the city, although Emmerich had never been to Ephesus.
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