The reading
How it began
From 1955 a German sister in Zululand reports visions of a woman with the Host in her breast, asking for a shrine at Ngome, then empty bush. The last interior locution is in 1971. A spring is found. Pilgrims, Zulu and otherwise, come for the Eucharist and for healing.
The day itself
Bishop Mansuet Biyase blessed the shrine. The title is the theology: Mary as the first tabernacle. No political secrets. A lot of silence.
Reading
How to read Our Lady of Ngome
Akita, Ngome, Lanciano: the twentieth century’s Marian signs keep returning to the Host. The mother points at the altar, not at herself.
Pray this
Prayers that sit with the story
Church status
How this sign has been received
Locally approved
The Diocese of Eshowe has approved the shrine and the public cult. A full declaration on the origin of the visions has been more reserved. Status: locally received.
Sources
- Diocese of Eshowe, Ngome shrine
- Benedictine Sisters of Twasana, testimony of Sr. Reinolda
For the classroom
Our Lady of Ngome (1955–1971, Ngome, KwaZulu-Natal). Grade in this encyclopedia: Locally approved. Sr. Reinolda May, a Benedictine missionary, sees Mary as Tabernacle of the Most High — a Eucharistic title — and is told a shrine will rise at a deserted spring. The bishop of Eshowe has permitted the sanctuary.
