User:M.A.Spinn/Marpingen apparitions
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The Marpingen apparitions are reports by the three eight-year-old girls Katharina Hubertus, Susanna Leist and Margaretha Kunz that the Virgin Mary appeared in Marpingen in contemporary Saarland, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. The girls claimed to have had the first apparition on July 3, 1876, and the last on September 3, 1877.
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The reports about Marian apparitions, which were later retracted several times by the children and are not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, attracted thousands of pilgrims within days. Soon other people, children and adults alike, were convinced they had seen the apparition or reported being miraculously cured of illnesses. The crowds of people attracted the attention of the authorities, who then, with the help of the military, broke up the praying and singing crowd of pilgrims at the site of the apparition on July 13, 1876. Against the background of the Kulturkampf between the German Empire and the Roman Catholic Church, arrests were made, the shrine was closed and the three children were institiutionalized.
The Marian apparitions in Marpingen attracted attention throughout Europe. The site was labeled "German Lourdes" by supporters and occupied courts in the Rhineland and the Prussian Landtag in Berlin.