TODAY IN GARABANDAL HISTORY: MAY 1, Mari “Loli” Mazon LaFluer, Birthday. María Dolores Mazón González was born on May 1st, 1949. She went by the name “Loli” and was the second of Ceferino and Julia’s six children. Ceferino was the village mayor, and, in addition to working in the fields, the family owned a small shop and bar. Loli married Francis Lafleur in Massachusetts, U.S.A., in 1974, and they had 3 children: Francis, María Melanie and María Dolores. For 7 years, she suffered from “lupus erythematosus” in her respiratory system, which eventually caused her death on April 20th, 2009, at age 59. She died in her home in Plaistow, Massachusetts (U.S.A.). Mari loli was the only visionary that knew the year of the future Warning. I was told by Conchita the two never spoke about the dates each were given. Loli was also responsible for giving us a most important piece of information, that the “Warning and Miracle are in the same year “! That information came from an interview on July 27, 1975 . The interview appeared in the magazine “Needles “ AUTUMN 1975 issue, pages 6 & 7 .
MAY, THE MONTH OF MARY For centuries, the Catholic Church has set aside the entire month of May to honor Mary, Mother of God. Not just a day in May, mind you, but the entire month, showing her importance and role in salvation to all Catholics. This custom of dedicating the month of May to the Blessed Virgin arose at the end of the 13th century. In the 16th century, books appeared and fostered this devotion. Two Popes that supported Garabandal have commented on this feast month. Pope Paul VI wrote “Mense maio” which is an encyclical promulgated on 29 April 1965, which focused on the Virgin Mary, to whom traditionally the month of May is dedicated as the Mother of God. Using the Month of Mary devotion as a means of obtaining prayers for peace. He urged the faithful to make use of this practice which is "gladdening and consoling" and by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is honored and the Christian people are enriched with spiritual gifts" . In May of 2002 Pope John Paul II said, "Today we begin the month dedicated to Our Lady a favorite of popular devotion. In accord with a long-standing tradition of devotion, parishes and families continue to make the month of May a 'Marian' month, celebrating it with many devout liturgical, catechetical and pastoral initiatives!" Mary always encouraged the devotion to the Rosary, and stressed that devotion at Garabandal. It was the first thing she taught the girls. So I encourage you now to try and say the rosary on a daily basis. It honors her, and is also our greatest weapon against evil, and to obtain the favors we ask of our Heavenly Mother. .
Garabandal & Fatima I feel ,as many do, that Garabandal is the continuation of Fatima. At Garabandal, Saint Michael first appeared to the visionaries in the evening (8:30 P.M.) of June 18, 1961, exactly 40 years (a biblical number) to the day (and even the same time of day) from the last vision at Fatima. In the sixth apparition at Fatima on October 13, 1917, during the tableaux of visions during the Miracle of the Sun, Our Lady appeared as Our Lady of Mount Carmel with the scapular on her wrist. On July 2, 1961, the Virgin appeared at Garabandal as Our Lady of Mount Carmel with a large brown scapular draped over her right arm. When Our Lady appeared at Fatima in 1917 she did something she had not done before: she addressed messages specifically to the entire world. While she appeared again after Fatima at Beauraing (1932-33) and Banneux (1933), she did not speak to the world at either of those places. But at Garabandal we again find this universal appeal. Although Fatima and Garabandal are separate events there is continuity in the revelations and similarities in features of the events not found among the other visits of Our Lady during the Marian Age. Father Malachi Martin stated that Our Lady came to Garabandal, because the Third Secret was not released in 1960 as She had requested. As a result, Our Lady appeared in Garabandal in 1961 , one year after the Vatican failed to release the Third Secret , and she basically released the Secret to the four children at Garabandal, within the message of Garabandal.The 3rd secret of Fatima seems to mirror the Garabandal prophecy of the " Chastisement", both speak of world wide punishment. See how the world did not heed Mary's Fatima warnings, so she stated them more profoundly at Garabandal.
Apart from the new road that goes up to the pine trees, they are also fixing some streets in the village. Click on photo to enlarge.
I am in Garabandal at the moment. Is there anything I should do or see before I leave tomorrow apart from going up to the pines? One of the villagers has shown me the location of the visionaries houses.
