It is highly preposterous, absurd and totally Don Quixotic for John Guillaumier to presume that more than a billion Roman Catholics and more than 800 million Christians, have been duped for over two millennia into believing in miraculous phenomena when miracles are one of the marks of Christ’s true Church.

The book, Mysteries, Marvels, Miracles by Joan Carroll Cruz, contains a plethoric panorama of Catholic miracles, going back centuries. The weekly magazine il mio Papa carries an account of a more recent miracle little known to readers, in its last three pages. Is it possible that these are all fakes?

It’s incredible how Gullaumier denies such a tsunamic cloud of evidence. A truth paradox incarnate! The friends of God are the poor, the disinherited, the meek and humble of heart and it has always been those with such an interior disposition of heart that have the privilege of experiencing apparitions.

There are many cases in the Old Testament; the annunciation – behold the handmaid of the lord; the Shepherd at the birth of Christ; Bernadette and the children of Fatima, and so on.

The townsmen were right in assuming that the vision of a beautiful lady was the Virgin Mary, but did not know what dignity and marvel were to be unfolded.

The Council of Trent in 1547 had already declared that theVirgin Mary was the Immaculate Conception. Three hundred years later, on December 8, 1854, the Immaculate Conception was again sol-emnly defined as a dogma of faith only to be divinely endorsed four years after by Mary herself at the apparitions in Lourdes,after Bernadette had her asked she was.

“The hand of God has shown wonders in the heaven aboveand signs on the earth beneath” – Acts 2:19.