COLLECTION OF LITTLE
MIRACULOUS STORIES THAT WERE BARLEY NOTICED AMONG THE BIGGER DAILY MIRACLES AT
GARABANDAL DURING THE APPARITIONS.
HAIR DRY IN RAIN
June 1961 ,by Placido Ruiloba
“As the ecstasy was prolonged
and the pathways became more difficult to traverse, my arm got tired from
holding the umbrella and I closed it even though the rain continued without
letup. I accompanied the girl for twenty minutes and was soaked through and
through; my feet were swimming in my shoes. At the end of twenty minutes, we
passed before a house lit by a small electric light bulb which enabled me to
see to my amazement that the shoulders and head of the girl were completely
dry. To make sure I passed my wet hand three times through her hair and dried
it as if I were using a towel. All this I affirm, and would swear to it with my
hand on the holy Gospels. “
UNTANGLED ROSARIES
Another interesting
miraculous phenomenon was the returning of rosaries. Now that people started to
believe the Blessed Mother was actually appearing at Garabandal, they would
bring their rosaries and medals to be kissed by her. They were all piled on a
table for the girls to offer up to her. Entangled when presented by the girls
to be blessed by the Blessed Mother, the rosaries and medals would incredibly
untangle smoothly when being returned to their owners. Even without any
pre-established order, the Garabandal visionaries also never erred in returning
each object to its proper owner.
The events of January 1,
1962.
Dr. Ortiz tells us the
following story:
“I was in the village with
Miss Margarita Huerta who had come from Madrid with a group of people. Three of
the girls fell into ecstasy and were walking together through the street just
above the plaza, going towards the Church. One of the men from the group, who
was following at a distance, suddenly thought, ‘If this is from God, let the
middle girl come to me now and offer me the crucifix to kiss.’
Immediately, the girl fell
back from the other girls and held up the crucifix for him to kiss! He was very
excited and later told us the story”.
A Dominican in Disguise
Conchita’s mother Aniceta
tells us the story:
A young man arrived here with
a young woman, a couple. He was dressed like any normal young man, and I
assumed that they were just a young dating couple. It was raining a lot and the
place was full of people. Conchita, in ecstasy, came into the house. My sister
was amidst the crowd and the young man approached her and said, “Give this
cross to the girl.” My sister responded, “Why should I try to give it to her?
She’s not going to take it. When she’s in ecstasy, she never receives
anything.” “Well, give it to her mother then, so that her mother can give it to
her.” My sister came up to me and said, “Here, that man said for you to give
this to Conchita.” I responded, “Why am I going to give it to her? She never
takes anything.”
Then, I had an idea. What he
wanted me to give to Conchita was a cross on a string, and so I thought of
hanging it on her fingers, since she had her hands folded. Although Conchita
spoke softly, I was close by and heard her insist to her vision, “I didn’t
bring anything. I really didn’t bring anything.” She continued, “Well, if I
have something, take it.”
At that moment, Conchita took
a step forward, lowered her hands and, in doing so, the cross fell on the
ground. She took another step and stepped on the cross, “Ah! I’m stepping on
it?”
She bent down and picked up
the cross, still in ecstasy, and held it up to her apparition to kiss. Then she
turned around, facing the young man, made the sign of the cross over him and
held it up for him to kiss. Turning back to the vision, she held it up again to
be kissed and said, “Having such a beautiful habit as the Dominican habit, what
a pity that he came dressed like that!”.
Then, turning back to the
man, she took his glasses off and put them in his hands. The man was afraid and
I said to him, “Don't worry, she won’t break them.”
She made the sign of the
cross over him, held up his cross to be kissed again, and then put it around
his neck. However, she put it on him backwards, the image was turned inwards.
“Oh! I put it on him backwards?” She took it off, turned it around and put it
back around his neck.
Then she opened his hands,
took his glasses and put them back on his face. Then she repeated, “What a
shame that they come dressed like that!”
He was a Dominican priest in
disguise, wearing normal clothing, and accompanied by a young lady, who
appeared to be his girlfriend, but who turned out to be his sister“.
CRUCIFIX RISES BY ITSELF
FROM BEING DROPPED THE MUD !
June 1961. With her eyes
fixed straight above, Conchita stooped slightly and reached down about 50
centimeters (20 inches) from the ground. Then before the attentive and
stupefied eyes of all of us who witnessed it, the crucifix came out of the mud
by itself to the level of the girl's hand. She immediately grabbed it with both
hands while remaining in ecstasy.
Witness: Don Placido Ruiloba
"Foot Race"
A story from Serafin Gonzalez ( Conchita's
Brother )
“On one occasion, a boy who
was a good athlete arrived and said: ‘No one can beat me in a race. No girl can
beat me.’ One of the girls had an ecstasy and set off running, and this boy ran
after her. It was clear that the Blessed Virgin wasn’t trying to outrun him in
the race, but at this point the girl was running at such a speed right toward
the wall of a house that the boy thought: ‘If this is not from God, this girl
will kill herself running into that wall.’ The boy had to stop to give him time
to slow down, but the girl continued running without stopping until she reached
the wall, and then she stopped in an instant. She said to the Blessed Virgin:
‘Oh, it is so he will believe…!’ The boy heard this and believed, since it was
not humanly possible to stop in an instant at that speed.”
WEDDING RINGS
The girls would have their
fingers full of wedding rings, and while in ecstasy they'd raise up their hands
and ask the Virgin to kiss them. After this they would return the rings to
their owners without making any mistakes and without seeing who they were
giving them to as their heads were always tilted backwards, and their eyes
fixed on the apparition above them.
Garabandal and the Holy
Shroud
Only after Father Eusebio
Garcia de Pesquera had written his comprehensive book on Garabandal, SHE WENT
IN HASTE TO THE MOUNTAIN, did it come to light that the Shroud was mentioned at
Garabandal. It was during one of Conchita's ecstasies when the Blessed Virgin
spoke to the visionary about the Sabana Santa (Spanish for Holy Shroud). Among
the spectators at that ecstasy was the Marquesa de Santa Maria, an excellent
witness, and it was from her that Prof. Jacques Serre learned what the Virgin
said about the Shroud. The Marquesa heard Conchita repeat the words of Our
Lady:
"It is the divine
imprint of my Son."
Sign of the cross, except
one
One of the visionaries made
the Sign of the Cross on all the persons around them except one . . . We can
imagine that person's dismay. The parish priest asked the girl later why she
had not made the Sign of the Cross over this person. And the girl responded
that the Virgin had said that this person was the only one of those present who
had made the Sign of the Cross on getting up in the morning. On questioning all
those involved, it was learned that it had indeed been like that.
IN TIME, MARY REVEALS ALL.
I have a rarely heard story
of Our Lady kissing a woman's powdercase. We know most of the stories are about
kissed religious objects. The reason I post this (besides being a rarely heard
story ) is that it reminds me of we don't always understand everything that
happened at Garabandal , until later on. I think this story proves my point.
Never question our Blessed Mother's intentions, even if we don’t understand it
right away.
One day Conchita was in the
kitchen of her house surrounded by persons who were waiting for the moment of
the apparition. On the simple table that served for the family meals, the
objects that she was going to give to be kissed were being gathered. Together
with these, someone had put there a stylish woman's powder case. The child and
those present wanted this removed. How could the Virgin come to kiss an object
so profane and used only for the service of vanity? Nevertheless, the powder
case remained there.
The ecstasy began and those
present saw with astonishment that the visionary's hand, without her looking at
it, before going to any other object, went first of all toward the previously
discussed powder case. The child raised it toward the invisible Virgin and then
set it down with great respect on the table. Among those present, surprise must
have been mingled with doubt. Was it really the Virgin who was appearing? It
didn't seem that she would kiss such an object . . .
As soon as the ecstasy was
finished, Conchita was asked for an explanation. And she declared that the
Virgin had asked immediately for the powder case in order to kiss it, saying
that it was something «belonging to her Son».The girl did not know anything
more. But the person who had put the powder case there did know more and revealed
the secret. During the terrible Spanish civil war (1936-1939) in the Red Zone
when priests were being executed and had to be hidden, the powder case had been
used to bring Communion Hosts to various locations and especially to prisoners
whom the Reds held captive in order to execute. Thus, it had served as a Pyx.
Light bulb story
The Chief of the Civil Guard,
Juan Alvarez Seco, who lived nearby, remembers this case.
“One day María Dolores ( Mari
Loli ) was on the second floor of her house where she had apparitions many
times. Her father Ceferino had said that, when they came down from there to the
floor below where the tavern was, they would unscrew the light bulb since there
was no switch to turn it off. Loli, while putting her hand on the bulb this
time, fell into ecstasy, and she didn't take away her hand. We all feared that
if she continued like this, holding onto the lit light bulb, she would burn her
hand. Her mother said, “Heavens, take away the light bulb!”
However, all our efforts were
useless. Then we called Mari Cruz who wasn't in ecstasy, and she—with the
greatest of ease—made Loli let go of the bulb. Her hand was not burned. Then
the girl went down the stairs and continued her ecstatic march “.
Conchita and the Glass of
Milk
One day Conchita was eating
near the elevated kitchen fireplace on a small stool where she usually sat.
Suddenly Loli came inside in ecstasy and said to her: — “Conchita, the Virgin
says you should finish quickly, since she is going to come to see you.”
Conchita sped up her motions a little, and then as she lifted her glass of
milk, to everyone’s surprise, she fell into ecstasy, the glass of milk in her
hand. She came down slowly from the fireplace, and at the doorway of the house,
she started running swiftly toward the church. She stopped abruptly in front of
the portico. There they were able to take the celebrated glass of milk from her
hand. To everyone’s surprise, not a drop had been lost. (Just another little
example of the daily signs of proof.)
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