Mother of God at Hrushiv
History
of Apparitions at Hrushiv
1637: According to Tradition The Blessed Virgin
first appears during a time of war and the villagers plant a willow tree in
honour of her visitation.
1790’s: A spring with healing powers miraculously
appears beneath the willow tree, an icon of Our Lady is placed above the willow
tree and Hrushiv becomes a place of pilgrimage. The authorities opposed it and
had the stream contaminated.
1850’s: During an outbreak of cholera Our Lady
appears to a local woman in a dream, commands her to reclaim the spring and have
holy Mass celebrated there and in return the cholera epidemic ended. Sometime
later following a vision of three
tongues of fire above the spring a small chapel was built on the site dedicated
to the Holy Trinity. It was upon this that current Holy Trinity Church was
eventually built which became the site for the first modern apparition of Our
Lady in 1987.
1914: On May 12, two weeks prior to onset of
World War I Our Lady appeared to 20 people, asked for prayer, hope, fasting, and
penance and told them that there would be a war, that Russia would become a
Godless country and that Ukraine would suffer for eighty years and suffer three
wars before becoming free again. The Shrine was closed after the Bolshevik
revolution when Ukraine came under the
control of the USSR.
1987: April 26, first apparition of Our Lady to
Marina Kizyn, Holy Trinity Church, Hrushiv
1987: May9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 apparitions of
Our Lady to Josyp Terelya, Holy Trinity Church, Hrishiv
1987: April 26-August 15, Spectacular public
apparitions of Our Lady continued. During the first three weeks tens of
thousands of pilgrims reported seeing Our Lady and hearing her messages. Between
40-80,000 pilgrims attended daily. Children saw angels flying, KGB officials and
non-believers underwent miraculous conversions, and on one day over 52,000
embroidered prayer towls were left by the pilgrims as tokens of love and
reverence
1987-1988: August 15 –April 1988, reported apparitions
of Our Lady at 13 other shrines scattered across Ukraine
1988: April ?-July 7, apparitions of Our Lady
resumed in Hrushiv
1988: After July 7 when apparitions ceased in
Hrushiv they reportedly continued in other Ukrianian
shrines
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