MARIAN APPARITIONS IN GEORGIA TO END

The Virgin Mary was alive and well and living -- or at least appearing — in the state of Georgia. That’s what a group of 100,000 people believed. The crowd gathered in Conyers, a town about 30 miles east of Atlanta, in mid-October to receive a message from the Virgin Mary. The revelations are delivered through Nancy Fowler, a woman who claims to have had reoccurring visitations since 1990 from the mother of Jesus Christ.

Fowler alleges that Mary began appearing to her in October 1990 and gave her messages on the 13th of each month. The monthly apparitions lasted through May 1994, when Fowler announced the visitations would be reduced to an annual event each Oct. 13. In 1997, Fowler said that the October 1998 message would be the last public declaration from the Virgin Mary delivered through her. She did not specify as to why the visions were stopping.

Fowler, reading from handwritten notes, presented generic messages to her audience. “If you are worried about the future, put not your attention to those matters. The future holds no concern to those who truly seek God and love him and remain in his favor,” she announced. Also during the 30-minute message she claimed that her final vision included a multitude of souls accompanying the Virgin Mary, which were supposedly released from purgatory into heaven in Mary’s honor.

Roman Catholic officials from Fowler’s area have not sanctioned the apparitions.

—MKG

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