Today in Garabandal History : March 25, 1962.

Feast of the Annunciation

AN OUTSTANDING "FEAST OF THE ANNUNCIATION AT GARABANDAL"

A sheer wonder as well was this Feast of the "Annunciation" (or "Incarnacion del Senor," as it is still called, and rightly so, in Spain) in the little village of San Sebastian de Garabandal.

From 9:30 p.m. until midnight, Conchita, Mari-Loli and Jacinta, in ecstasy, sang the entire Rosary for the first time! They added several verses, that the Blessed Virgin inspired them to sing, to the traditional announcements of the different mysteries, including several short stanzas from the Ave Maria of Fatima. Always in ecstasy, the girls invited the people to join them in their singing. They rejoiced over the number of people accompanying them, and exclaimed:

"Ah, how happy the Blessed Virgin is! How she is smiling, and how she is looking at all of us!"

The stanzas 3, 4, 5 and 6 were taken, as we said, from the Ave Maria of Fatima.

The "three times" to which the children refer in the seventh stanza were obviously corresponding to the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes, at Fatima and at Garabandal. By virtue of the traits and accent proper to each of these "Three greatest public Marian apparitions," we can already observe how Lourdes is related to the Joyful Mysteries, Fatima to the Sorrowful Mysteries, and Garabandal to the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. A truly admirable "spiritual logic"!

Translation of a few stanzas sung by the visionaries in ecstasy:

O MOST BLESSED MARY,

FLOWERS, WE BRING YOU,

THE HOLY ROSARY,

TO YOU WE OFFER.

(AVE MARIA, AVE MARIA, ETC . . .)

O BLESSED MARY,

YOUR EYES ARE NOW FIXED . . .

ON EACH AND EVERY HEART

OF THIS HUMAN WORLD.

(AVE MARIA, AVE MARIA, ETC . . .)

THE FASHIONS BEAR US

TO THE FIRES OF HELL.

SO, MODESTY DRESS

IF YOU WISH TO BE SAVED.

(AVE MARIA, AVE MARIA, ETC . . .)

YOU MUST DO PENANCE,

AND YOU MUST ALSO PRAY,

FOR ALL SINNERS

PRAY FOR FORGIVENESS.

(AVE MARIA, AVE MARIA, ETC . . .)

ON THE THIRTEENTH OF MAY

THE VIRGIN MARY

CAME DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS

TO THE COVA DA IRIA.

(AVE MARIA, AVE MARIA, ETC . . .)

MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN

NOW YOU KNOW OUR MESSAGES;

THE VIRGIN MARY WANTS THEM ALL DONE

FOR THE GOOD OF ALL HOMES.

(AVE MARIA, AVE MARIA, ETC . . .)

THE VIRGIN HAS WARNED US:

WITH THIS TIME, IT MAKES THREE.

OH, SWEET VIRGIN MARY,

WHAT GRIEF DEATH GIVES US!

(AVE MARIA, AVE MARIA, ETC . . .)

MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN,

RECITE THE ROSARY,

SO IN THE OTHER WORLD,

YOU MAY FIND REST.

(AVE MARIA, AVE MARIA, ETC . . .)

[From 'Garabandal' Book, page 128]

The Sight Touched Even the Hardest of Hearts

Jacinta's father, Simon, recalls:

“The three girls, Conchita, Loli and my daughter, up until then had only "prayed" the rosary. That day, however, they began to sing it and they sang the whole rosary. At the beginning of the apparition, there were only a few of us there, but by the end I think the whole village was there.

I felt an immense joy. I knew well how shy my daughter is and I thought to myself, ‘she must be seeing something great to sing like she's singing.”

My joy that day could only have been greater if I were to have seen the Blessed Virgin myself.” .

Maximina wrote in a letter:

“The best thing happened on Sunday, feast of the Annunciation.

The apparition began at 9:30 pm and finished at 12 midnight. I can hardly explain what happened. They began to sing the rosary. Then they said that Our Lady asked for everyone to sing. Well, we sang with all our hearts! You can’t imagine!

We sang all the way to the cemetery. There, on their knees, they prayed one mystery. Conchita, next to the closed gate, reached through the bars with the crucifix in hand; it looking like she was giving it to be kissed. The sight touched even the hardest of hearts.

Afterwards we went back to the village, singing all the way. We sang the "Salve" and "Cantemos al amor de los amores" (traditional Spanish Eucharistic hymn), and then other songs that the girls made up while still in ecstasy. The girls exclaimed, “The Blessed Virgin is very happy because there are a lot of people! She smiles and looks at all of us!" .

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