Protestants and Marian Apparitions (Our Lady of Gaudalupe, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Fatima, etc.)

[Anonymous]

If you're a Protestant, do you know about Marian Apparitions (the Virgin Mary appearing at various times throughout history and leaving proofs)? For example, the tilma that has survived 500 years in Mexico, the healing waters of Lourdes, France, and the Miracle of the Sun witnessed by 70,000 people in Portugal (including skeptcs)? To me, these are convincing proofs of Catholicism. What is the Protestant perspective?

[Anonymous]

Funny how the Virgin Mary only ever appears to Christians 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Anonymous]

I bought an apparatus that you can use to make an indent on a piece of bread and then when you toast it, the Virgin Mary appears. I assume that it works equally well for people of all religions who try it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funny how the Virgin Mary only ever appears to Christians 🤷🏼‍♀️

Well, the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima was witnessed by 70,000 including skeptics. The tilma can be viewed by anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny how the Virgin Mary only ever appears to Christians 🤷🏼‍♀️

Well, the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima was witnessed by 70,000 including skeptics. The tilma can be viewed by anyone.

It's real if you want it to be real.

I'm an ex-Catholic so I have a skewed opinion of Catholicism and Christianity as a whole.

[Anonymous]

The miracle of the sun was refuted by scientific evidence. There was no celestial discrepancy, it was just in the minds of the people who wanted to see something. The phenomenon would have been seen by everyone in the world if the sun was actively dancing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The miracle of the sun was refuted by scientific evidence. There was no celestial discrepancy, it was just in the minds of the people who wanted to see something. The phenomenon would have been seen by everyone in the world if the sun was actively dancing.

The power of suggestion is impressive.

[Anonymous]

I am a Protestant and I consider worship of Mary to be idolatry - and I say this as someone who used to LOVE Mary, before I was saved.

We are only supposed to worship God and God alone.

[Anonymous]

Yes, most of us Protestants think Catholics worship Mary like an idol, the apparitions are proof of this.

Mary is important, but not an idol.

[Anonymous]

Protestant here who’s been to Knock.

It reminded me of South of the Border.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a Protestant and I consider worship of Mary to be idolatry - and I say this as someone who used to LOVE Mary, before I was saved.

We are only supposed to worship God and God alone.

Catholics don't worship Mary. They honor Mary just as all Christians did for the first 1500 years of the faith.
Were you aware of the Marian Apparitions? I went to Protestant churches for many years and never heard about them.

[Anonymous]

Former Catholic here. The amount of humans that Catholics pray to and venerate is a lot. It really is idolatry.

[Anonymous]

I think most people know who La Virgen de Guadelupe is, and the significance of Lourdes. There was a movie made about Our Lady of Fatima. I don't think most people think of the religious visions of others as proof of anything in particular. People do experience their faith in many diverse ways, and they will gravitate toward whatever speaks to them, whether that is a vision, an act of kindness, a poem etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Former Catholic here. The amount of humans that Catholics pray to and venerate is a lot. It really is idolatry.

Catholics are against idolatry. Read your Aquinas Summa Theologica and the Conc. Trid., Sess. XXV, “de invocatione Sanctorum”

[Anonymous]

They aren't "convincing proofs of Catholicism," lol. Assuming you have faith in them (which I, a protestant, actually do), they are proof that Mary watches over us and loves us and that miracles happen. But the Bible tells us about lots of miracles -- nothing earth shattering about that.