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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Marian apparitionsclaimed to have taken place outside of Rome were decreed “not supernatural” by the local bishop.
Since 2016, Gisella Cardia has claimed to be seeing visions of the Virgin Mary in the central Italian town of Trevignano Romano, some 30 miles north of Rome, after bringing a statue of Mary with her from a trip to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, which she said began to shed tears.
Cardia said that Mary and Jesus regularly communicated with her, and the alleged visions began drawing hundreds of people to monthly prayer gatherings during which she shared the content of the messages she said she received. In 2020, she told Catholic News Service that Mary had warned her of the COVID-19 pandemic by telling her in September 2019 about “a virus that would arrive from China.”
Bishop Marco Salvi of Civita Castellana, the diocese that includes Trevignano Romano, said that he had established a commission of experts in theology, canon law and psychology in April 2023 to investigate the claims. And on March 6, the diocese published its results, decreeing a “constat de non supernaturalitate,” or a refutation of any supernatural origin for the claimed apparitions.
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Since 2016, Gisella Cardia has claimed to be seeing visions of the Virgin Mary in the central Italian town of Trevignano Romano, some 30 miles north of Rome, after bringing a statue of Mary with her from a trip to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, which she said began to shed tears.
Cardia said that Mary and Jesus regularly communicated with her, and the alleged visions began drawing hundreds of people to monthly prayer gatherings during which she shared the content of the messages she said she received. In 2020, she told Catholic News Service that Mary had warned her of the COVID-19 pandemic by telling her in September 2019 about “a virus that would arrive from China.”
Bishop Marco Salvi of Civita Castellana, the diocese that includes Trevignano Romano, said that he had established a commission of experts in theology, canon law and psychology in April 2023 to investigate the claims. And on March 6, the diocese published its results, decreeing a “constat de non supernaturalitate,” or a refutation of any supernatural origin for the claimed apparitions.
‘Bizarre’ messages, says bishop
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Alleged Marian apparitions near Rome are not endorsed by Church, says bishop
The Marian apparitions claimed to have taken place outside of Rome were decreed "not supernatural" by the local bishop.
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