GURU JÁRA PATH TIMELINE** ** For an extended group timeline and profile, see Introvigne 2019. 1971 (January 4): Jaroslav (Jára) Dobeš was born in Příbram, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). 1976: At age five, as he later reported, Jára first experienced visions of ghosts and other supernatural phenomena. 1980: Jára started recording his supernatural experiences in a journal. Believing he was suffering of mental illness, doctors put him on heavy medication. 1982 (November): Jára tried to hang himself on a tree but was saved by his best friend and taken to the hospital. There, he went through what he later described as a near-death experience, which oriented his life towards spirituality. 1985: Jára became a proficient rock climber. 1989: Jára escaped to Italy, where he studied Roman Catholicism and monastic…
ORDER OF SAINT CHARBEL / MARIAN WORK OF ATONEMENT TIMELINE 1950 (May 16): William Kamm was born in Cologne, Germany. 1953: The Kamm family emigrated to Australia. 1968 (April 14): Kamm experienced his first mystical experience in the form of a vision and locution at St Francis Xavier Cathedral in Wollongong, New South Wales. 1972/1973: Kamm founded the Marian Work of Atonement (MWOA). 1982 (March 7): Kamm received his first private message from the Virgin Mary. 1982 (July 16): Kamm received a message that property of followers would be “Sacred Grounds” and that he was to adopt the name “The Little Pebble.” 1983 (Midyear): Members of MWOA began meeting at 6 AM on Atonement Day (thirteenth of each month) at Bangalee Property of Price family for twelve hour prayer meetings.…
CRONICA DE LA SANTA MUERTE En 1375 los aztecas establecieron su capital en Tenochtitlan (Hoy lugar de la moderna Ciudad de México) Su imperio domina a México central culturalmente y políticamente hasta 1519. El sistema de creencias de los aztecas incluye Mictecacihuatl, La Diosa de la Muerte azteca tradicionalmente representada como un esqueleto humano o un cuerpo carnal con un cráneo como cabeza. 1519-1521 La Conquista Española de los Aztecas lleva las creencias y devoción indígenas a la clandestinidad tan pronto como comienza la Era Colonial. 1700 Documentos de la inquisición Española muestran devoción a la Santa Muerte, sin embargo la práctica permanece oculta. 1800-1900 Virtualmente no se hace mención de la Santa Muerte en el record escrito de su historia. 1940 La Santa Muerte reaparece en documentos producidos por…
NECEDAH SHRINE (QUEEN OF THE HOLY ROSARY, MEDIATRIX OF PEACE SHRINE) NECEDAH SHRINE TIMELINE 1909 (July 31): Mary Ann Van Hoof (née Anna Maria Bieber) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1934: Mary Ann married Godfred “Fred” Van Hoof. They had seven children. 1949 (November 12): Van Hoof had a vision of a tall female figure entering her bedroom and standing by her bed. 1950 (February 9): Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy announced that communists had infiltrated the State Department. 1950 (April 7): On Good Friday, Van Hoof saw a crucifix in her room begin to glow. She heard the voice of Mary, who commissioned her to go the parish priest with a request that everyone be directed to recite the rosary each evening at eight o'clock. Mary announced that she would…
MEXICAN-U.S. CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC TRADITIONAL CHURCH TIMELINE 1959 David Romo Guillen was born in Mexico. 1980s Romo became Director of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and Saint Philip of Jesus (Missionaries Misioneros del Sagrado Corazón y San Felipe de Jesús). 2001 (All Saints Day) Doña Queta erected a shrine to Santa Muerte outside of her home in the Tepito Barrio of Mexico City. 2002 Romo founded the National Sanctuary of Holy Death. 2003 Romo officially registered the church in Mexico as The Mexican-U.S. Catholic Apostolic Traditional Church. 2005 The Mexican government revoked the church’s official status. 2009 (March) The Mexican government destroyed thirty Santa Muerte shrines in Nueva Laredo and Tijuana. 2009 (April) Romo declared “holy war” against the Catholic Church for its condemnation of Santa Muerte. 2011 Romo was…
FADIA IBRAHIM TIMELINE 1962: Fadia Ibrahim was born. 1990: Ibrahim immigrated from Beirut, Lebanon to Canada. 2009 : The Virgin Mary first visited Fadia Ibrahim during Mass, by inscribing the letter M on her leg in blood. 2010: In response to now numerous messages from Mary to Ibrahim, a Catholic group in Detroit, Michigan delivered a statue of the Virgin to her. 2010 (March): Ibrahim began to notice the statue weeping tears of oil. 2010 (May/June): Mary told Ibrahim to place the statue outside her home. 2010 (October): The City of Windsor Ontario received the first complaint about the presence of the statue. 2010 (early November): Media in the U.S. reported on the statute, leading to an increase in visitors. 2010 (November 5): After opposition to the display of the…