What is fascinating about Our Lady of Hungary is that it is one of the few and very rare photographs of an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. And there is nothing subtle about this apparition.
The Manifestation of Our Lady of Hungary
On September 3, 1989, a team of church restorers were sent in to work on a beautiful cathedral. They were bringing in ladders, photographers, construction workers, along with the actual restoration specialist to take a look and see how much work would be required and necessary to bring this church back up to par.
When the restorer and the photographer were alone in the building by the altar, the restoration expert began walking across the altar looking around at what might be necessary to complete this project when he suddenly noticed something. Shouting to the photographer, he said, “Do you see that!?” The photographer could see nothing, but the restorer wasted no time in shouting, “Take a picture of me right here. Take a picture of me right here!” He did and the rest became history.
One of the most spectacular apparition photographs appeared; the photo features a clear image of the Blessed Virgin Mary – all in light – her head surrounded with a crown of twelve stars. Her light radiated across much of the altar.
The team was stunned and the apparition became quickly known as Our Lady of Hungary.
The Message of Our Lady of Hungary
Since Our Lady of Hungary never spoke, her message clearly became a powerful silence. She’d appeared in perfect order with the Revelation of St. John and the image was something unlike any of them had ever seen.
As the photo was passed around the world, it soon became a phenomenon everywhere because of its clear quality and the undeniable miraculous nature of this photograph.
In the 1500’s, a painting of the Blessed Virgin appeared as Our Lady of Guadalupe. And in a further apparition, the Lord made a profound statement through His mother about lay and ecclesial renewal through the apparitions of Our Lady of La Salette. Other apparition sites like Medjugorje have produced miraculous photographs of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Sources:
- Those who Saw Her: Apparitions of Mary, by Catherine M. Odell.
- Catherine Laboure and the Modern Apparitions of Our Lady, by Abbe Omer Englebert.
- Miraculous Images: Photographs Containing God's Fingerprints, by Marilynn Hughes.
- Medjugorje: Light for the World, by Pietro Jacopini.
- Our Lady Comes to Garabandal, by Joseph A. Pelletier, A.A.
- The Wonder of Guadalupe, by Francis Johnston.
- The Glories of Czestochowa and Jasna, To the Priests Our Lady's Beloved Sons, by the Marian Movement of Priests.
- Our Lady of America, by Sister Mildred Mary Neuzil.
- The Thunder of Justice, by Ted and Maureen Flynn.
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