The Carmelite Order—new in Europe—is on the brink of collapse.

St. Simon Stock pleads with the Virgin Mary for help.

She appears with a vision and a promise that will shape Catholic devotion for centuries.

The story of Our Lady of Mount Carmel 🧵: Mount Carmel rises above the Mediterranean in modern-day Israel.

There, Elijah called down fire from heaven to prove the one true God (1 Kings 18).

By the 12th century, Christian hermits lived on the mountain, forming the foundation of the Carmelite Order.

(Carmelite Rule, ca. 1209)

No modern saint has more medically documented miracles than St. Charbel Makhlouf.

Over 29,000 are on record, many with scans and doctor reports.

It began in 1898 with a strange light over his grave and a body that oozed for decades.

The astonishing miracles of St. Charbel 🧵: Charbel Makhlouf was born in 1828 in a remote Lebanese village.

He became a Maronite monk, then chose a hermitage where he lived in silence for 23 years.

He fasted, prayed, and spoke only when necessary.
No fame. No preaching. Only God.

(Daher, Saint Charbel, p. 17–24) (Pictured: his living quarters)

Five children saw the Virgin Mary floating above a bridge.

She returned 32 more times.
Doctors examined them. Thousands gathered.

Her final words: “I am the Queen of Heaven. Pray always.”

This is the forgotten apparition of Beauraing, the Lady of the Golden Heart 🧵:
It began on November 29, 1932, in Beauraing, Belgium.
Fernand Voisin, 15, went to fetch his sister from school.

As he waited near the gate, he saw a glowing figure above the garden walkway.

He cried out, “Look—the Virgin is walking above the bridge.”
(Van der Cruysse, Beauraing: The Apparitions and the Message, p. 21)

In 1730, thieves broke into a church in Siena, Italy, and stole hundreds of consecrated Hosts.

They were found days later discarded and desecrated.

What followed defied time, science, and decay.

This is the Miracle of Siena 🧵:
On August 14, 1730, while the city celebrated the Feast of the Assumption, thieves forced open the tabernacle at the Basilica of St. Francis and stole a ciborium containing 351 consecrated Hosts

(Fr. Ventura, The Eucharistic Miracles, 1991, p. 123).

She levitated during prayer.

Witnessed by clergy and even cautious Church investigators.

She had visions of Christ and angels.

And her heart was found pierced, as she described in a mystical vision.

The documented life of St. Teresa of Ávila, mystic and Doctor of the Church.
Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) was a Carmelite nun, reformer, and mystic.

Her visions and physical phenomena were so extraordinary that she was investigated multiple times by the Inquisition.

She was always cleared.

(Source: Collected Works of St. Teresa, ICS Publications, Vol. 1, Kavanaugh & Rodriguez)

It was pouring rain in a forgotten Irish village.

Suddenly, 15 people saw a vision that left them frozen in awe:

The Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, and St. John appeared glowing, silent, unmoving.
No words were spoken. But heaven was speaking.

Our Lady of Knock, Ireland🧵: Knock, County Mayo, Ireland. August 21, 1879.
The Irish were still suffering from famine, poverty, and persecution under British rule.

Catholic faith was all many had left.

That evening, something inexplicable took place at the parish church.

(Source: Knock Shrine Official History)

The priest who made Hell tremble, so they sent a demon to stop him.

He barely passed seminary.

He was sent to a dying village no one cared about.

By the time he died, 20,000 people a year came just to confess to him.

This is the true story of the Curé of Ars 🧵:
France was still reeling from the Revolution.

Churches were desecrated. Priests were exiled. The faith was all but dead.

And into that silence, God sent a poor priest who could barely speak Latin.

(New Advent)

She wore a crown of roses and a glowing crucifix.
But she was weeping uncontrollably.

What she told two children on a mountain would warn of famine, blasphemy, and judgment.

The Church approved it. Most Catholics have never heard it.

The story of Our Lady of La Salette🧵: On September 19, 1846, two poor shepherd children—Maximin Giraud (11) and Mélanie Calvat (14)—were tending cattle near La Salette, a mountain village in the French Alps.

Around 3 p.m., they saw a globe of light.
Inside stood a woman, seated and weeping with her face in her hands

(Mélanie & Maximin’s original testimony, 1846, Archdiocese of Grenoble).

The Saint Who Flew — and Was Hidden by the Church

Not once. Not twice.
Over 70 times, in front of popes, nobles, skeptics.

He was so disruptive the Church hid him from the public for years.

The story of St. Joseph of Cupertino 🧵: Joseph was born in 1603 in Italy.
Slow-witted. Awkward. Rejected by every religious order.

Even his own mother gave up on him.
But the Franciscans finally took him in—barely.

(source: The Reluctant Saint, 1962; Butler’s Lives of the Saints)

For 50 years, a quiet friar bled from wounds no scalpel could heal.

Doctors examined him. Some converted.
His blood smelled of roses.
Pilots saw him in the sky.

And when he died, the wounds vanished.

This is Padre Pio—
the miracle science couldn’t explain🧵:
Sept 20, 1918—after Mass in a small Italian friary, a young Capuchin collapses in prayer.

A burst of blinding light floods the chapel.
When it fades, he is bleeding.
Hands. Feet. Side.

The wounds of Christ.

(1921 Apostolic Visitation Report, Rossi)

Every year—even today—thousands gather in Naples to witness a miracle.

A vial holding the 1,700-year-old blood of St. Januarius turns from a crusted solid to bright flowing liquid.

It’s done this for 600+ years on three fixed dates—unless doom is near.

The strange miracle 🧵:
St. Januarius was a bishop of Benevento, martyred during the Roman persecutions around 305 AD.

His relics were later brought to Naples, where he became the city’s beloved patron saint. His blood was said to have been collected after his death.
(Source: Catholic News Agency, 2024)

She saw rivers of blood. People killing each other.

In 1981, a schoolgirl in Rwanda fell into a trance.
The Virgin Mary told her to warn the world.

No one listened.
13 years later, a million people were dead.

🧵The Marian apparitions of Kibeho:
It began on November 28, 1981 at a girls’ boarding school in Kibeho, Rwanda.

A 16-year-old named Alphonsine Mumureke suddenly collapsed.

She said she saw a woman of incomparable beauty who called herself “Nyina wa Jambo,” the Mother of the Word.

(Catholic News Agency)

In 1531, a poor indigenous man saw a radiant woman outside Mexico City.

Her image appeared on his cloak with no paint, no brushstrokes, and no known origin.
The fabric should have decayed centuries ago. It hasn’t.

9 million converted.

This is Our Lady of Guadalupe.🧵
Juan Diego, a 57‑year‑old Nahua convert, met her on December 9.

He heard her say, “Am I not here, I who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection?”

Her words comforted his fear and bound him to her cause.
(Nican Mopohua, sec. 119)

The miracle that baffled science.

In 8th century Italy, a doubting priest raised the bread at Mass, it turned into living heart tissue.

In the 1970s, the Vatican invited secular scientists to conduct 500+ tests.

What they found defied biology.

The miracle of Lanciano 🧵
The priest—tormented by disbelief in Christ’s Real Presence—was celebrating Mass in the town of Lanciano.

But at the moment of consecration, the bread visibly became flesh, and the wine turned to blood.

Those present were stunned.
(Source: EWTN, St. Michael’s Center)

In 1973, in a quiet convent in Japan, a statue of the Virgin Mary began to weep.

She cried 101 times tears confirmed to be human.
Over 500 people, including non-Christians, saw it.

The Church approved it.
And Mary gave a dire warning for us.

🧵 Our Lady of Akita Miracle:
It began with Sr. Agnes Sasagawa, a deaf convert from Buddhism living in Akita.

She reported visions, interior messages, and strange lights from the tabernacle.

Then, on June 28, 1973, the wooden statue of Mary began to bleed from the right hand.

(Source: EWTN, Diocese of Niigata)

In 1968, Cairo traffic froze. A woman in glowing white stood on the roof of a church.
Thousands watched in silence.
She returned again the next night.
And again.
And again—for 3 years.
This is the most publicly witnessed Marian apparition in history. 🧵👇
The church was St. Mary’s in Zeitoun.

It was built in 1925 after a Coptic man claimed Mary appeared to him in a dream, asking for a church on that very spot.

She told him: “A miracle will happen here one day.”
(Coptic Encyclopedia, vol. 7, 1991)

70,000 stood in a muddy field—priests and atheists, farmers and journalists.

They came to see if three children were telling the truth.
What happened next made even skeptics fall to their knees.

This is the Miracle of Fátima:
🧵
For six months, three children said the Virgin Mary was appearing to them in Fátima, Portugal.
She told them to pray, and promised a final miracle on October 13, 1917.
Each month, the crowd grew.

By October, 70,000 people had shown up to see if it was real.

(Documented in newspaper records and witness accounts archived by the Diocese of Leiria-Fátima.)

In 1884, Pope Leo XIII had a vision.
He saw Satan unleashed on the world—with permission to try to destroy the Church.

What followed was a prophecy, a collapse at the altar, and a prayer that still echoes today.

This is the origin of the St. Michael Prayer 🧵
October 13, 1884. The Vatican.

After finishing Mass, Pope Leo XIII suddenly stopped.
His face went pale.
He collapsed.
Some thought he had died.

He later described hearing a chilling conversation between Christ and Satan.
(Source: Fr. Domenico Pechenino, Ephemerides Liturgicae, 1955)