Mother Mary Apparitions 1500s

1531	Guadalupe (Mexico)	Bishop Approved and Recognized by Vatican Title: Our Lady of Guadalupe Visionary: St. Juan Diego Mary proclaimed herself "the Mother of the true God who gives life" and left her image permanently upon the tilma of Juan Diego, a recent convert to Christianity. More about this apparition >>
May 18, 1531	WESEMLIN, LUCERNE (SWITZERLAND)	Visionary: Maurice von Mettenwyl (City Councilman) and crowd Title: Queen of Angels During the night of Pentecost of 1513, the city councilor, Maurice von Mettenwyl, saw the Virgin Mary surrounded by a heavenly light and surrounded by arrows and the moon was at her feet. Mary appeared crowned and carrying the Child Jesus on her left arm, while the right hand was a scepter. Faced with this majestic appearance of the man was shocked and fell on his knees, promising to rebuild the chapel and put the portrait of Mary in her place, as she had appeared. See also: Hierzenberger 1996 p 126 More about this apparition >>
Aug 1532	PAITONE (Italy)	Visionary: Filippo Viotti Title: Madonna di Paitone The birth of the sanctuary is linked to the apparition of Our Lady to the young Filippo Viotti, which occurred in August 1532 , in the mountains near the town [1] . The Virgin would ask the child to build a church at that point and these, deaf and dumb , then it would be miraculously healed. The community of Paitone, in honor of the Blessed Virgin's request, decides to build a new shrine dedicated to her. The authorization from the diocese of Brescia arrives on May 11, 1534 , prepared by Mattia Ugoni, auxiliary bishop Andrea Corner [1] . Among other things, it says precisely that "received the humble and devoted your question, have just presented to us, to found, to erect, construct and build a church [...] in the place where the Blessed Virgin appeared Maria and where he is said to work many miracles, we with the tenor of this letter, we grant such license and faculty " Source: Sanctuary of the Maddona of Paeitone Wikipedia (Italian)
1527 or 1532	Ipswich (England)	Title: Our Lady of Grace at Ipswich Visionary: Anne Wentworth (12) A miracle at the shrine of Our Lady of Ipswich is recorded by Sir Thomas More in his book The Supplication of Souls, and he had news of it on first-hand knowledge. The miracle was bestowed on Anne Wentworth, the 12 year old daughter of Sir Roger Wentworth, a friend of More's. Anne suffered from seizures in which she spasmed, blasphemed and was said to be able to utter prophesy "vexed and tourmented by our gostly enemye the devyll". After a vision in which she beheld the image of Our Lady of Grace at Ipswich, she was taken to the shrine and "layde before the ymage of our Blessyd Lady....grevously tourmented and in face, eyen, loke and countenance so grysely chaunged...that it was a terrible syght to beholde". There in the presence of the whole company, she was restored "perfytely and sodeynly". Perhaps More's later spirited defence of the Catholic Church was in small part due to this miracle so close at hand which obviously edified him greatly. Anne, in grateful recognition of the miracle, took the veil and became a nun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Ipswich
1535	Peru	Title: Our Lady of the Rosary Visionary: Many People
1535	Altkirch, Alazia (France)	Visionaries: Many people The Virgin appeared below the bastion of the city to scare off the Protestants. Source: Dictionary of the Apparitions of the Virgin Mary p 74. (Rosa Mystica, n. 37, 37)
March 16, 1536	SAVONA (ITALY)	Title: Our Lady of Victories / Mother of Mercy Visionary: Tomo Botta (farmer) On the morning of March 18, farmer Antonio Botta was on his way to work in his vineyard in San Bernardo. He almost arrived on the scene when he saw an enormously clear light shine before him, with a clearly discernible figure of a woman who told him: "Do not be afraid! I am the Virgin Mary. "Atonement and urged him to prayer". Some weeks after this apparition, the man received a second message: this time he saw Mary, who sat on a big rock in a stream, and said that without prayers and good works, the world would fall into great affliction and misfortune. It was therefore necessary to convert the people who should have been away from the faith... Then Our Lady spoke of Divine Mercy. Botta told the people just what he had seen and heard and was at once believed. A large church was erected on the site and many pilgrims visited the "Mother of Mercy." On March 18, 1660, Mons. Gregoire Ardizzone, declared Our Lady of Mercy "patroness and protectress of the city". A statue was created shortly thereafter and installed in the chapel of white marble inside the cathedral in 1752. On March 18, there is a procession organized in her honor. Source: C. Turchini-Zuccarelli, Les Merveilleuses Apparitions de Notre-Dame, Paris 1977. Source: Hierzenberger 1996 p 126
May 23, 1536	Cuzco (Peru)	Visionary:Christians besieged by Indians arsonists Feast:May 23 The virgin appears to Christians besieged by Indians arsonists. The flames go out mysteriously. Some pilgrims go on places to worship Our Lady of Descent. A chapel was built, replaced later by the great cathedral of Cuzco. Bishop Bernardino, archbishop of the diocese, told the facts in a report sent to Charles V. Source: G. Bonaño, "Las Apariciones de la Virgen Maria y la liturgia", Las Apariciones marianas en nla vida de la Iglesia. Estudios Marianos, voil. 52. Salamanca, 1987, 141. Chiron, 1995, 108; Rosa Mystica, n. 37. maggio 1981, 4.
May 31, 1536	Monte Stella (Italy)	Title: Madonna of the Star Visionary: Antonio de'Antoni Source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santuario_di_Monte_Stella http://santuariodimontestella.it/
July 11, 1536	Combarbio (Italy)	Title: Madonna of Mt Carmel Visionary: A young shepherdess (12) The architectural complex consists of the church and the old convent of the Carmelites , was erected between 1536 and 1552 on design and design attributed to the engineer Grand Ducal Giovanni Alberto Camerini from Bibbiena , in the place where on July 16 1535 the Madonna had appeared to shepherds. The plant of the church is a Latin cross with a large transept . On the right side is placed against the bell tower dated 1566 and the cloister . The complex underwent restoration nineteenth century and was the subject of a recent intervention of architectural restoration. Above the altar is the table that says sixteenth copied in 1536 by Niccolò Soggi is inserted in a shrine decorated with wooden carvings to big golden foliage with four children, of baroque style, on the sides. Source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santuario_della_Madonna_del_Carmine_al_Combarbio
May 20, 1537	Farigliano, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy	Title: Vergine delle Grazie Feast: Sixth Sunday after Easter.
Spring 1539	Sveta Gora (Slovenia)	Visionary: Urska Ferligojeva (shepherd) Mary appeared on the mountain Skalnica, now called the Holy Mountain, in the year 1539 to the shepherdess Ursula Ferligoj, with this message: "Tell the people that I build a temple over here and come and ask me thank you." Not believed by the authorities, Uršula she was imprisoned several times in public prisons of the castle of Salcano, from which, however, the shepherdess always miraculously managed to escape. The fact immediately attracted crowds of people on the mountain Skalnica, this hallowed place that quickly became one of the most visited places of pilgrimage, where was built the first wooden chapel to pay homage to the Virgin Mary. The irrepressible piety of devout pilgrims and their turnout ever more intense and large made the Authority more open and condescending, so that ruled the year 1540 to release, through the replacement of Gorizia captain Hieronymus Attems cleared for the construction of church on the mountain Skalnica. In digging the foundations was found a prodigious stone slab containing ornaments and the words of the angelic salutation "Ave gratia plena, Dominus tecum, benedicta milieribus you in," engraved on 120 circles, spread over 10 rows. The new church built in the Gothic - Renaissance was consecrated by the vicar general Egidio Falcetta, while the Patriarch of Aquileia, Cardinal Marino Grimani donated to the sanctuary in the year 1544 a picture showing the artistic image of grace and mercy of the Mother of God , attributed to the Venetian painter Jacopo Palma il Vecchio, with the real name Jacopo Negretti. The Cardinal wanted the framework would replace the previous statue and was thus exposed for public veneration, in fact, the beautiful Immaculate from face suffused with an 'ineffable sweetness appears in all its wonderful and compelling perfection and never ceases to attract not only individuals but multitudes of the faithful who follow continuously at his feet. Source: http://www.latheotokos.it
1539	Gorizia, Fruili (Italy)	According to legend from this place, Mary ould appear two times to a shepheredess named Ferligoinza and gave a message to be transmitted to the people: "The people ought to build a chapel in this place and implore me to receive my grace and my forgiveness." Source: Hierzenberger 1996 p 127