WelCom August 2024
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has announced the approval of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Pierina Gilli, an Italian visionary, in 1947 and 1966. The apparitions took place in Montichiari and Fontanelle, Italy. In a letter approved by Pope Francis, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández indicated the ‘spiritual proposal that emerges from the experiences narrated by Pierina Gilli in relation to María Rosa Mystica does not contain theological or moral elements contrary to the doctrine of the Church’. In one of the apparitions, on 13 July, 1947, the Virgin Mary was dressed in white and held three roses: a white one, a red one, and a yellow one, that symbolised the spirits of prayer, sacrifice, and penance.