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San Sebastián de Garabandal, commonly called just Garabandal, is a rural
village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
in the Peña Sagra mountain range of Northern
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. Located in the autonomous community of
Cantabria Cantabria (, ; ) is an autonomous community and Provinces of Spain, province in northern Spain with Santander, Cantabria, Santander as its capital city. It is called a , a Nationalities and regions of Spain, historic community, in its current ...
, about 600 meters above sea level, Garabandal is about 35 miles (55 km) from the Cantabrian capital, Santander, and roughly 250 miles (400 km) from the Spanish capital,
Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...
.Pedro Arce Díez; ''Diccionario de Cantabria. Geográfico, histórico, artístico, estadístico y turístico''. Editorial Estudio, Santander 2006. It has a population of about 300.


Garabandal Events

From 1961 to 1965, four young schoolgirls – Mari Loli Mazón, Jacinta González, Mari Cruz González and Conchita González – said they had received several apparitions and messages from
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and the
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under the title of
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Our Lady of Mount Carmel, or Virgin of Carmel, is a Roman Catholic Titles of Mary, title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated as patron saint, patroness of the Carmelites, Carmelite Order. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on M ...
. The apparitions numbered in the thousands, drew huge crowds, and featured supposed
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phenomena, much of it filmed or photographed, with thousands of witnesses. Today, the town is a place of pilgrimage for
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and members of other faiths. Catholics have since been reminded by the Roman Hierarchy that the Garabandal apparitions are in no way sanctioned or approved by the Church. However, the pilgrimages are now allowed by the local bishop. Because of the town's remote location and lack of easy accessibility, it has remained largely the same as it was in 1961.


See also

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Garabandal apparitions The Garabandal apparitions are Marian apparition, apparitions of Saint Michael in the Catholic Church, Saint Michael the Archangel and the Veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church, Blessed Virgin Mary that are claimed to have occurred from 1961 t ...


References


Sources

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EWTN The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) is an American basic cable television network which presents around-the-clock Catholic programming. It is the largest Catholic television network in America, and is purported to be "the world's larges ...
on Garabanda

* Workers of Our Lady of Garabanda


External links


The apparitions of Our Lady of Mount Carmel de Garabandal

Garabandal: Only God Knows
– The 2018 Movie
Messages and Prophecies of Our Lady of Garabandal
– Garabandal Irish Centre
Pilgrimage to Garabandal
– Web site of the Workers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Australia
Workers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel de Garabandal
– Official Web site of the Workers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The organization was founded by Joey Lomangino in Lindenhurst, New York (1968).
St. Joseph Publications
a non profit foundation, was incorporated in 1973 to foster devotion to Saint Joseph and the Virgin Mary and make known messages given through apparitions. Books and videos of Our Lady’s apparitions, especially Garabandal and Our Lady of Fátima, Fátima, are available on this site free for download.
Garabandal Videos
– Video Clips of the apparitions, with the letters from Bishop José Viliplana of Santander and Cardinal Seper.
Garabandal Apostolate
– Website in English about Garabandal apparitions. Official website of Garabandal Apostolate {{DEFAULTSORT:San Sebastian De Garabandal Populated places in Cantabria Towns in Spain Catholic pilgrimage sites