Personal Account: My trip to Garabandal

In Garabandal there were around 2500 visits by the Blessed Mother from 1961 to 1965 during which the visionaries were in Ecstacy. The visionaries & locals did a poor job of promoting the place & they were treated badly by sceptics. The main visionary Concita Gonzales high tailed it to the U.S.A. & basically wanted to hide her children from bullying & herself from ridicule. In Medugorje there are typically 20,000 visitors & the blessed Mary regularly appears. The blessed Mary has the budget of genuine prayers praising Jesus to work with to suspend the laws of nature so she can appear. She was running into spiritual liquidation in Garabandal so she had to leave the place & head to the greener pastures of Medugorje where she has been since 1981. When I was there one week after the 50th anniversary of the Miracle there were approximately 10 pilgrims there a fact which really annoyed me.

THE Miracle as described in the link http://www.garabandal.org/miracle.shtml

A Permanent Sign will remain at Garabandal in memory of the miracle as visible proof of our Blessed Mother's love for all humanity. It will be a "thing" never before seen upon the earth. It can be photographed by not touched. I took the picture below in Garabandal in July & if your expectations for the miracle are small, ridiculous as it may seem it fits the bill.

This is a strange video I took near the Pines showing the Stations of the Cross glowing in a light & the cross appearing nearly invisible on the hill, possibly signifying that no interest is being placed on Jesus dying for our sins on the cross, it is explainable by me touching my iphones screen resulting in a large change in contrast, it's strange none the less.

Below that is a photo of the cross around the same time the following day.

Getting to Garabandal from Ireland

The easiest way to get to Garabandal is by Ryanair Flight from Dublin to Santander Airport from there take a bus to the Main Bus Station & from there another bus to Unqurea about an hour & 25 minutes away by bus the bus prices are very reasonable from there a Taxi can be taken to Garabandal I'd recomment Marta Casio Gomez 0034 619 94 62 78 she will pick you up from there & carry to to Garabandal for around 35 Euro If you want to carry a big crowd she can take at least 7 by minivan for a quite reasonable 110 Euro direct from the Santander Airport which isn't bad as it's around 120Km away. Staying in Garabandal you have a few options the one generally recommended online is Hosteria Garabandal San Sebastian de Garabandal,s/n c.p. 39954 Rionansa(Cantabria) Tel 0034 942727140- 0034 942727004 www.hosteriagarabandal.es hosteriagarabandal@gmail.com