Our Lady appears in Venezuela: she is seen by 15 people

Virgin Mary and Mother, Reconciliation of all peoples and nations ”, is the name with which Catholics venerate Mary following the apparitions that would have had, starting from 1976, María Esperanza Medrano de Bianchini, in Finca Betania, Venezuela.

History of the apparition

In the Venezuelan state of Miranda, near the city of Cúa, capital of the Municipality of Urdaneta, there is the small village of Finca Betania, about 65 km from Caracas. Here, starting from March 25, 1976, María Esperanza de Bianchini, mother of seven children, currently recognized Servant of God, would have had apparitions of the Virgin Mary, accompanied by alleged Eucharistic miracles and miraculous healings. María Esperanza would also have received, from the age of five, after being cured of a very serious illness, mystical gifts, including heavenly revelations, prophecies, the ability to read in hearts and minds and the gift of obtaining healings; moreover he would also receive the gift of the stigmata, who appeared on Good Friday. The first Marian apparition would take place on a tree near a stream: together with the visionary there were about eighty people, who did not see the Virgin but witnessed luminous phenomena. Subsequently, on August 22, the Madonna would have asked for the construction of a cross, while on March 25, 1978 the Virgin would have been seen by fifteen people, together with the "miracle of the sun" as had happened in Fatima. On March 25, 1984, Maria would appear on the local waterfall to more than one hundred and fifty people, and subsequently she would appear more frequently, especially on Saturdays, Sundays and on the occasion of the Marian anniversaries. The local bishop said that the apparitions would have taken a total of between five hundred and one thousand people. On November 21, 1987, after more than 10 years of investigations, Archbishop Pio Bello Ricardo declared that "the apparitions are authentic and supernatural in nature" and approved the specially built sanctuary.