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Veronica Lueken (1923-1995) was a Roman Catholic housewife who lived in Bayside, New York. From 1970 until her death, she reported to experience apparitions of the Virgin Mary and numerous Catholic saints. He gave messages from them at both Saint Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church in Bayside, and at the Vatican Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Park (site of the 1964 New York World's Fair). The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church (see Terminology below) is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins and sees itself as the same Church founded by Jesus of Nazareth and maintained through Apostolic Succession from the Twelve...
Bayside is the name of a neighborhood in Queens County of New York City, New York in the United States of America. ...
The term Virgin Mary has several different meanings: Mary, the mother of Jesus, the historical and multi-denominational concept of Mary Blessed Virgin Mary, the Roman Catholic theological and doctrinal concept of Mary Marian apparitions shrines to the Virgin Mary Virgin Mary in Islam, the Islamic theological and doctrinal concept...
Flushing Meadows Park, also sometimes referred to as Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, is located in northern Queens, New York City, USA at the intersection of the Long Island Expressway and the Grand Central Parkway. ...
View of the New York Worlds Fair 1964/1965 as seen from the observation towers of the New York State pavilion. ...
The Roman Catholic Church came out with its final pronouncement regarding the Bayside Apparations through Bishop Francis Mugavero, from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, in 1986. Bishop Mugavero stated that "a thorough investigation revealed that the alleged visions of Bayside completely lacked authenticity" and that "the messages and other related propaganda contain statements which, among other things, are contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church." [1] The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church (see Terminology below) is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins and sees itself as the same Church founded by Jesus of Nazareth and maintained through Apostolic Succession from the Twelve...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, which includes territory that was previously part of the (now) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, was established as a separate diocese in 1853 when Brooklyn was a seperate city from New York City. ...
History of the Bayside Marian Apparition
In 1968, Lueken reported experiencing her first manifestation when she smelled a perfume of roses in her car while praying for the dying Robert Kennedy in June 1968. Saint Theresa of Lisieux was said to appear to her and dictate sacred poem-messages, preparing Mrs. Lueken for what would follow. Robert Kennedy Robert Francis Bobby Kennedy, also called RFK (November 20, 1925–June 6, 1968) was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy, and was appointed by his brother as Attorney General for his administration. ...
Saint Thérèse de Lisieux (January 2, 1873 - September 30, 1897), or more properly Sainte Thérèse de lEnfant-Jésus (Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus), born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, was a Roman Catholic nun who was canonised as a...
Mrs. Lueken reported her first Marian vision in her home on April 7, 1970. She was reportedly informing her that she would appear on the grounds of the old St. Robert Bellarmine Church in Bayside on June 18, 1970, and subsequently, on all great feast days of the Catholic Church. From that day, Mrs Lueken reported a series of Marian apparitions near St Robert Bellarmine's Catholic Church at Bayside. According to her report, Mary asked her to establish a Marian shrine at the site on April 7, 1970. Mrs. Lueken began to type up and circulate her prophecies, many of which had apocalyptic content. Apparition of The Virgin to St Bernard by Filippino Lippi (1486) Oil on panel, 210 x 195 cm Church of Badia, Florence Marian apparitions are events in which the Virgin Mary is purported to have supernaturally appeared to one or more persons, typically Catholics, in various settings. ...
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Overwhelmed by the influx of an estimated five hundred to two thousand Marian devotees, the parish ministers fenced off the church precincts in 1973. At the same time, Bishop Francis Mugavero of the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn announced that there was no doctrinal basis for the content of Lueken's messages. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...
Meanwhile, Lueken elaborated on her reported visions. Apart from the Virgin Mary and the aforementioned Saint Therese of Lisieux, she also said she received visitations from Saint Joseph, Saint Paul, Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Theresa of Avila, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Bernadette Soubrious and Saint Robert Bellarmine, amongst others. The Archangel Michael and the Archangel Gabriel were also said to have appeared to her. Joseph led his family to safety in Egypt to escape from Herod, as depicted by Lorenzo Monaco According to Christian Gospel accounts and tradition Joseph of the House of David – also called Joseph the Betrothed and Saint Joseph and Joseph of Nazareth and Joseph the Worker – was the husband of...
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Bernadette Soubirous I am the Immaculate Conception Saint Bernadette Soubirous (January 7, 1844 - April 16, 1879) was a shepherd girl from the town of Lourdes in southern France. ...
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Undeterred by official church rejection, Lueken and her followers then assembled on a traffic island near the site of the alleged visitation (1974/75), until they negotiated a permanent site of worship at Flushing Meadows, former site of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. She and her fellow believers established Our Lady of the Roses Shrine, which survived her death in 1995. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
At the apex of this organization were Veronica Lueken and her husband Arthur. Accompanying them, a Lay Order of Saint Michael existed to organize prayer vigils and assist the increasingly infirm and aging Lueken in administrative responsibilities associated with corresponding with like-minded Catholics in the United States and elsewhere. Since Lueken described her experiences, other unrecognized Marian apparitions have occurred in Lubbock, Texas (1988-1989) and Conyers, Georgia (1989), and have incorporated similar apocalyptic motifs in their messages. Apparition of The Virgin to St Bernard by Filippino Lippi (1486) Oil on panel, 210 x 195 cm Church of Badia, Florence Marian apparitions are events in which the Virgin Mary is purported to have supernaturally appeared to one or more persons, typically Catholics, in various settings. ...
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At some point, Mrs. Lueken predicted, the authenticity of her visions would be recognized, and there would be a basilica church built on the site of her first visions at Bayside, as well as the appearance of a healing spring, and the area would become the venue of a national Marian shrine in the United States.
Mainstream Church Status of the Bayside Apparition According to mainstream Catholic sources, the Bayside visitations do not fulfill criteria that would qualify the alleged events as legitimate Marian apparitions, and so are unrecognized. In any case, such visitations are supposed to remain private visitations and eschew publicity, which Lueken and her followers were unwilling to accept. Some argue that Lueken's visions would qualify as a psychological phenomenon known as pareidolia, in which anthropomorphic forms are witnessed in alleged surface formations on various objects. Pareidolia (pronounced /pɛɹaɪˈdoliə/ or /pæraɪˈdəʊliə/) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (usually an image) being mistakenly perceived as recognizable. ...
At the Eternal Word Television Network, Father Mark Gantley JCL has clarified that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document related to "Proceeding in Judging Alleged Apparitions and Revelations" in 1974. Initially, a Diocesan Bishop is enabled to investigate the phenomenon in question. After he has completed his scrutiny, he may or may not ask for assistance from national Catholic Bishops Conferences, or refer the matter to the Vatican. For further information, consult the entry on Marian apparitions. EWTN—or the Eternal Word Television Network - broadcasts exclusively Catholic-themed programming, including a Daily Mass from its Irondale Monastery/Studios, talk shows such as EWTN Live and Sunday Night Live, Daily Rosary, Benediction, doctrinal instruction programs, entertainment/variety shows, childrens programming, live coverage of world Catholic events such...
Apparition of The Virgin to St Bernard by Filippino Lippi (1486) Oil on panel, 210 x 195 cm Church of Badia, Florence Marian apparitions are events in which the Virgin Mary is purported to have supernaturally appeared to one or more persons, typically Catholics, in various settings. ...
As positive elements of evaluation, Father Gantley notes that moral certainties, orthodox content of revelations in terms of faith, morals and orthodox theology, and greater overall piety in terms of prayer and charitable works, as well as an orthodox way of life for the alleged visionary may be taken into account. In this context, orthodox Catholicism will include personal qualities like the absence of past mental illness, honesty, moral life, obedience to church teachings and observance of orthodox practices of worship. As negative elements of evaluation, Father Gantley noted that the Congregation cited glaring factual and doctrinal errors, pursuit of personal financial gain, immoral behaviour of the visionary and the presence of current mental illness.
Apocalyptic Literature and Catholicism Michael Cuneo noted that, as a religious literary genre, contemporary apocalyptic revelations are usually the province of evangelical or fundamentalist Protestants, such as Hal Lindsey or Tim LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins and their bestselling fundamentalist Left Behind series. However, Mrs Lueken provided a conservative Catholic variant of the above, while borrowing elements such as rapture eschatology from her fundamentalist counterparts, a malevolent United Nations and atheist totalitarian "one world government." The word evangelicalism usually refers to religious practices and traditions which are found in conservative, almost always Protestant, Christianity. ...
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However, Catholic apocalypticism has its own traditions, which extend from Michel Nostradamus to Anne Catherine Emmerich to (allegedly) Pope Pius X, who is reported to have seen the destruction of the Vatican, and deposition and assassination of one of his successors. Cuneo also identified several particular features of contemporary Catholic apocalyptic discourse in particular. Nostradamus original portrait by his son Cesar Nostradamus (December 14, 1503 – July 2, 1566), Latinised name of Michel de Nostredame, was one of the worlds most famous publishers of prophecies. ...
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (8 September 1774 - 9 February 1824) was a Catholic Augustinian nun, stigmatic, and ecstatic. ...
Pope Pius X (1903-1914), pictured in 1904, wearing the 1834 Triple Tiara of Pope Gregory XVI Saint Pius X, né Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, (2 June 1835 - 20 August 1914) was Pope from 1903 to 1914, succeeding Pope Leo XIII. He was the first pope since the Counter-Reformation Pope...
Like their fundamentalist Protestant counterparts, conservative Catholic apocalyptic believers base their worldview on the axiom of a sinful and corrupted contemporary world that requires chastisement and assert this, even against the Catholic hierarchy. Unlike their fundamentalist Protestant counterparts, they often embrace premillennial fatalism and avoid active political involvement. During the 1970s and 1980s, they also incorporated anticommunism - although this may be replaced by anti-Islamic sentiment, given contemporary current events - and conspiracy theory elements. They also depict the institutional Catholic Church, and even the Papacy itself, as convulsed by crisis. As their worldview is defined through appeals to thaumaturgical (or mystical) authority, they do not require formal institutional church approval of their apocalyptic discourse or practices of worship. Michael Majcik concurred in his study of the Bayside phenomenon, noting Mrs. Lueken's emphasis on direct inspiration, ecstatic trance and subjective experience for her claims, mediated through pre-reform Catholic doctrine and elements of popular culture. A conspiracy theory attempts to explain the ultimate cause of an event or chain of events (usually political, social, or historical events) as a secret, and often deceptive, plot by a covert alliance of powerful or influential people or organizations. ...
At present, there has been no independent in-depth study of the current state of Lueken's enterprise, over a decade after her death, although the St. Michael's World Apostolate still preserves the legacy and archived visions of its deceased visionary onsite and on its own website, as noted in the section below.
St. Michael's World Apostolate Several traditionalist Catholic clerics upheld what Lueken had to say, despite records of her alleged prophecies that have not yet been fulfilled. Lueken was told over twenty times in the messages that all prophecy is conditional and does not have to happen[2]
The St. Michael's World Apostolate website [3] is dedicated to veneration of the late alleged seer, and appears to be linked to her former ministry structure. On that website are listed the alleged messages of the Virgin Mary to Veronica Lueken. Many messages refer to perceived institutional disorder in the Roman Catholic Church. These include the fall of the clergy into various errors, ideologies and sins that are viewed as contrary to their vocation, which is that the mission of the Church is to save souls. The current Vatican II Catholic liturgy is denounced as erasing the virtues of faith, hope and love to be expressed in the traditional Tridentine liturgy towards the Real Presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. The institutional Church has rejected these messages. However, Bayside followers state that the sex-abuse scandal in the Church reflects the authenticity of these messages.
This exposure of institutional church corruption is balanced by a call for prayer and sacrifice for the clergy within Mrs Lueken's messages. St. Michael's World Apostolate holds a Holy Hour for the clergy on the exact location where Veronica Lueken received the messages each Sunday.
Other messages focus on the fallen condition of the world in its political, social, religious and moral spheres. They list remedies to be taken to restore society back to a God-fearing state, otherwise Chastisement will befall the countries of the world, including elemental disasters, wars and invasions.
See also Necedah Shrine, Necedah,Wisconsin. ...
Father Nicholas Gruner (1942- ) is a believer in the Marian apparition related to Our Lady of Fatima, a manifestation of the Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal in 1917, particularly its anti-communist aspects during the Cold War. ...
References
Primary sources - Veronica Lueken: The Virgin Mary's Bayside Prophecies: Volume 1: 1970-1973: Bayside, New York: 2002: ISBN 1-891981-01-3
- Our Lady of the Roses Shrine: Roses From Heaven: Orange, Texas: Children of Mary: 1990.
- David Clyde Skovmand: Prophecies Received by Mrs Veronica Lueken: Oakland: Our Lady's Worker of Northern California: 1997.
Contemporary media reports - Roberta Grant: "War of the Roses" Rolling Stone (21.02.80):43-46.
- Phillip Nobile: "Our Lady of Bayside" New York11 (11.12.78): 47-60.
Bibliography - Daniel Wojcik: The End of the World as We Know It: Faith, Fatalism and Apocalypse in America: New York: New York University Press: 1997: ISBN 0-8147-9283-9
- Michael Carroll: The Cult of the Virgin Mary: Psychological Origins: Princeton: Princeton University Press: 1986: ISBN 0-691-09420-9
- Michael Cuneo: "The Vengeful Virgin: Case Studies in Contemporary Catholic Apocalypticism" (p.185-194):in Tim Robbins and Susan Palmer: Millennium, Messiahs and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements: New York: Routledge: 1997: ISBN 0-415-91649-6
- Michael Cuneo: The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism: New York: Oxford University Press: 1997: ISBN 0-19-511350-0
- Bishop Francis Mugavero: "Declaration Concerning the 'Bayside Movement'" (p.209-211) in James LeBar (ed)Cults, Sects and the New Age: Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division: 1989: ISBN 0-87973-431-0
- Sandra Zimdars-Swartz: Encountering Mary: From LaSalette to Medjugorge: Princeton: Princeton University Press: 1991: ISBN 0-691-07371-6
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