The reading
How it began
Gladys, with little education, begins in 1983 to see Mary and, later, Jesus. She is given a bronze statue of Our Lady of the Rosary that had been in the cathedral’s belfry. Messages — unusually numerous — urge the Gospel and the rosary and warn in the familiar twentieth-century register. A great shrine is built on the Paraná. Pilgrims come in the hundreds of thousands.
The day itself
In 2016 Bishop Héctor Cardelli, after years of study, declares that the apparitions are supernatural and worthy of belief. Gladys is still living a withdrawn life.
Reading
How to read Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás
San Nicolás is a reminder that approval did not stop in 1933 with Banneux. The modern Church can still say yes, slowly, to a housewife and a rosary. The volume of messages is the usual worry; the bishop judged the fruit and the doctrine sufficient.
Pray this
Prayers that sit with the story
Church status
How this sign has been received
Church-approved
Diocesan declaration of 22 May 2016. Approved at the local level, with a shrine and a feast in the diocese.
The shrine today
Why pilgrims still go
A housewife, Gladys Quiroga de Motta, a statue that moved, thousands of messages, a church the size of a country’s prayer. In 2016 the bishop declared the apparitions supernatural. Argentina comes here as Mexico goes to Tepeyac.
San Nicolás — the reasonsSources
- Diocese of San Nicolás de los Arroyos, 2016 decree
- Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás
For the classroom
Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás (1983–1990, San Nicolás de los Arroyos). Grade in this encyclopedia: Church-approved. A housewife, Gladys Quiroga de Motta, reports apparitions and 1,800 messages centered on the rosary, Scripture, and a church to be built. In 2016 the Bishop of San Nicolás declared the apparitions worthy of belief.
