Our Lady of America

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Our Lady of America is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary which has received recognition from the Roman Catholic Church by the Archbishop of St. Louis, Raymond Burke who wrote that approbation for this devotion was granted by Paul Francis Leibold, Archbishop of Cincinnati, in 1959.[1]

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[edit] History

The devotion to Our Lady of America has its source in private revelations to Sister Mary Ephrem (baptized Mildred) Neuzil, who was born in 1916 and was professed in 1933.[1]

[edit] Apparition

In 1938, Sister Mary Ephrem began to have what seemed like mystical spiritual experiences. What the Church considers to be the central messages of Our Lady of America took place between September 25, 1956 and November 15, 1956 in the Our Lady Mother of Mercy Chapel in Rome City, Indiana (now known as Sylvan Springs). According to her diary, as these visits took on the nature of a specific program of devotion to Mary which Sister was asked to propagate, she then turned to Monsignor Paul F. Leibold. Monsignor Leibold, later Archbishop of the Cincinnati, Ohio Archdiocese, would be her spiritual director from many years until 1972, when he suddenly died due to an aneurysm.

Archbishop Leibold had become so convinced of the authenticity of this message that he approved Sister's writings and placed his imprimatur on the design of the medal. Our Lady had asked Sister to have struck a medal that would bear the image of Our Lady of America on the front and the symbol of the Christian Family and the Blessed Trinity on the back.[2]

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Burke, Archbishop Raymond. Letter to the Bishops of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Regarding Our Lady of America.
  2. ^ The Story of Our Lady of America.
  • http:www.oltiv.org// Our Lady The Immaculate Virgin website
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