February 23

Our Lady of America

"On February 23, 1959, Our Lady came to me and admonished me to work on the “message'' as soon as possible so that it might be placed in the hands of the Bishops who would be responsible for its fulfillment.


In a very serious manner Our Lady warned me that I must not delay any longer to do this, as the time is now."

Our Lady to Sister, Mary Ephrem (Mildred Neuzil)

http://www.ourladyofamerica.com/

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Apparition of OUR BELOVED LADY OF VICTORY

(Wangen/Wigratzbad, Germany, 1938), (devotion authorized by the local bishop)

Wigratzbad: I Shall Crush the Serpent's Head (I)

 In 1919, after Antonie Radler (1899-1991) contracted the Spanish influenza, the Blessed Virgin appeared to her, laid her hands on her, and healed her. Between 1927 and 1936, Antonie worked as a manager in one of her father's butcher shops, in Lindau near Lake Constance. One day the Gestapo arrived and ordered her to replace the painting of the Virgin by that of the Führer. She was ordered to salute him in the Nazi fashion: "Heil Hitler" instead of the usual Bavarian greeting of "Grüss Gott." Antonie disobeyed those orders and as a result barely escaped several attempts to murder her, notably by drowning. She said that a mysterious cyclist protected her, whom she called her "guardian angel on a bike."


To express their gratitude, her parents erected a small Lourdes grotto in their garden, which was blessed by Father Basch, pastor of their parish, on October 11, 1936, feast day of the Maternity of Mary. The following month, the statue "smiled" at her. She received this prayer in a message: "Our Beloved Lady of Victory, conceived without sin, pray for us!" On December 15, 1936, the day in the octave of the Immaculate Conception, as she was reciting the third sorrowful mystery of the rosary in front of the Lourdes grotto, Antonie heard "angelic choirs" singing: "O Mary! Immaculate, conceived without sin, Beloved Lady of Victory, pray for us."





Patrick Sbalchiero, Wigratzbad,
in: René Laurentin and Patrick Sbalchiero,
Dictionnaire encyclopédique des apparitions de la Vierge. Fayard, Paris 2007.

Ave Maria!