Virgin Miracle of Boadilla

Alleged apparitions in Boadilla del Monte (Madrid) · Not approved, in discernment

On Mount Boadilla del Monte, next to a plentiful alcornoque of the estate known as La Milagrosaa group of faithful have been gathering for decades to pray the Rosary around the neighbor's stories Antonio Murillowho claims to receive visions and messages from the Virgin under the advocation of the Miraculous Medal. The Church no ha aprobado These alleged apparitions are gathered here as a witness of popular piety, not as a supernatural fact.

Main data

What's the story?

According to the testimonies collected by the group itself, Antonio Murillo, neighbor of Boadilla del Monte, claims to see the Virgin and receive messages from her along with a great cork of Mount Boadilla. Around that experience a prayer group was formed that raised by the tree a hermitage dedicated to the Virgin Miraculousand has since maintained a life of simple and constant prayer: the Rosary, prayer for the deceased and monthly meetings.

The messages spread by the group - archived since the mid-2010's - insist on the usual healthy Marian piety: the prayer of the Holy Rosary, la prayer for the deceased, conversion and trust in God. Among the most widespread stories are that of the "living water well" (June 2023) and a vision of the souls of the deceased during the prayer of the Rosary on the day of the Faithful Faithful (November 2023).

The place and the hermitage

The point of reference is the alcornoque of the estate La Milagrosa, next to which the hermitage was built. The pointed day of devotion is the 27 of each month, date linked to the advocation of the Miraculous Medal (The approved apparitions of the Rue du Bac to Saint Catherine Labouré began on November 27, 1830). The hermitage is listed in the list of hermites of the diócesis de Getafeto whose jurisdiction Boadilla del Monte belongs.

Ecclesial situation

The documented pastoral position of the parish has been of prudent accompaniment: to attend spiritually to the group of faithful - "good, simple people," in the words of a parish report - "leaving aside the alleged apparitions". It is the Church's classic attitude to these phenomena: to welcome prayer and conversion, which are always good, and to reserve judgment on the extraordinary to the ecclesial discernment that may take years. As long as there is no pronunciation, the faithful is not obliged to believe in these apparitions, and this page presents them only as testimony.

Link to the Rosary

The most solid thing about Boadilla is, precisely, what does not need approval: a group of neighbors that has been for decades. praying the Rosary on the mountain, asking for the dead and holding a hermitage with their prayer. Devotion intersects with the spirituality of the Miraculous Medal - the Virgin of the open hands that shed thanks - and with the certainty that the perseverant Rosary, as Mary asks in all her approved apparitions, is a safe way of conversion and peace.

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