DeSales High School - Salesian Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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Wfmy Www Wm ' ea We have read many different types of stories, and what could be more enjoyable than to have related to us the earthly visita- tions of Our Lady-who so many times has left her queenly throne in Heaven to appear to some poor mortal, and urge the peoples of the world to better themselves? Thus, we en- thusiastically give you the apparitions of Mary as she appeared at Guadalupe to Juan Diego, in Paris to Saint Catherine Laboureg at La Salette to Melanie Mathieu and Maxi- min Girauclg at the grotto of Massabielle to Bernadette Soubirous, and at Fatima to Lucia clos Santos and Francesco and Jacinto Marto. On the hill of Tepeyac in Mexico, Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to a poor In- dian, Juan Diego, in December, 1531. She commanded him to tell the Bishop Zumar- raga to have a temple built in her honor. At first the Bishop did not believe Juan Diego and asked for a sign of the Lady who said she was the Mother of God. So Juan went again to his hallowed spot and without hesi- tating, joyously asked the sign when Our Lady appeared. She told him to go to the rocks and gather roses, and arranging them she bade him to keep them untouched and unseen until he reached the Bishop. Return- ing to the Bishop Zumarraga, Juan offered the sign. He unfolded his cloak and the roses fell to the floor and he was startled to see the Bishop and attendants kneeling before him. A life size picture of the Virgin Mother, just as he had described her, was glowing on his cloak. Soon after that a shrine was built on the hill of Tepeyac. At the close of the year 1830, Saint Cath- erine Laboure, a Sister of Charity in her con- vent chapel in Paris, France, was blessed with three apparitions of Mary Immaculate who urged her to have a medal made after the model which she showed to Catherine. Cath- erine related the vision to her confessor and soon the medal was circulated and in a short time it was worn by millions. In its wake fol- lowed wonders innumerable: health was re- stored, special graces given, dangers averted, blessings bestowed-until the little Medal of the Immaculate Conception became known by the name Miraculous Medal. On September 19, 1846, in the town of La Salette, in southeastern France, Our Lady appeared to two small children. She was posed in an attitude of grief, her head resting in her hands. Our Lady gave a distinct charge to the children of La Salette. She excoriated the Christians of that day and threatened dire chastisements upon them for their irreverence to the name and authority of her Divine Son-mercy would come to them only when they would again render respect to God, when they would lovingly lisp the sacred name of Jesus. Our Blessed Lady appeared to Bernadette Soubirous, a peasant girl, on February 11, 1858, while the child was resting at the rock of Massabielle, in France. She appeared to Bernadette eighteen times in all, the last apparition taking place on July 16, 1858. Thus, four years after the proclamation of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception, Our Lady confirmed the sanction of Heaven upon her dogma by appearing to a little girl and proclaiming, I am the Immaculate Con- ceptionf' In the afternoon of May 13, 1917 in Fa- tima, while saying the rosary, three small children were astonished when suddenly a beautiful lady appeared to them. This beau- tiful lady was the Blessed Virgin, the Mother of God. She requested them to pray daily her rosary for peace and the conversion of sinners. She said, If my requests are heard, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. Otherwise great errors will be spread through the world, giving rise to wars and persecutions against the Church, the good will suffer martyrdom, and the Holy Father will have to suffer much -different nations will be destroyed, but in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph, and an era of peace will be conceded to hu- manityf' May all the world heed the message of Our Lady of Fatima and say the rosary daily to avert the chastisement which we so justly deserve because of our sins. May the grace of Guadalupe, the Miraculous Medal, La Salette, Lourdes, and Fatima triumph in the hearts of all mankind! lf you follow Mary, says St. Bernard, you cannot wander from the road.

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