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She Went in Haste to the Mountain she went in haste to the mountain she went in hasteto the mountain BY EUSEBIO GARCIA DE PESQUERA, O.F.M., CAP. Translated from Spanish by B. Miller, Gerard Suel and Otto Miller Published by The Workers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel P.O. Box 606, Lindenhurst, New York 11757 U. S. A. Published in Spain in 1972 and 1979 under the title SE FUE CON PRISAS A LA MONTAÑA First English Edition published in 1981 by St. Joseph Publications, Cleveland, Ohio Second English Edition of 1981 original translation published unaltered in one volume in 2003. International Standard Book Number 0-9604310-7-1 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 00 092773 The Workers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Post Office Box 606, Lindenhurst, New York 11757-0606, U.S.A. ©2003 Our Lady of Mount Carmel de Garabandal, Inc. Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Contents Acknowledgements vii BOOK I: MARIAN EPIPHANY (1961) 1 1 As It Was in the Beginning 3 2 Preparing the Way 20 3 She Went to the Mountain 48 4 And He Dwelt Among Us 63 5 The Extraordinary Happens Every Day 81 6 He Came Unto His Own, But His Own Received Him Not 105 7 “But As Many As Received Him” 146 8 The First Death at Garabandal 159 9 Summertime News 192 10 On the Way to Salvation 229 11 After Great Hopes Great Disillusions 265 12 Garabandal’s First Winter 308 BOOK II: THROUGH HER TO HIM (1962) 333 13 Lord Where Dwellest Thou? 335 14 As Winter Passes . 348 15 The Ways of God in Garabandal 375 16 From the Month of Mary to the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament 398 17 Eucharistic Miracle or Sacrilegious Fraud? 417 18 After the 18th of July 464 19 The Unsearchable Ways of God 477 20 A Miracle on the Horizon 493 21 The Bells of the Last Council 507 22 Toward the End 529 BOOK III: MARANTHA—O LORD, COME (1963–1965) 545 23 A Year of Interlude 547 24 1964: Another Year of Interlude 582 25 Before the Finale 587 26 “You Are in the Last Warnings” 608 27 Farewell in the Rain 623 Epilogue 641 Appendix: (1966–1968) 645 Acknowledgement To Brian Miller, M.D., who gave The Workers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Inc. permission to publish his original translation which he placed under the protection of Saint Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church, Patron of the Dying and Foster Father of Jesus the Son of God. vii Dedicated to the Mother of God and our Mother. Part I The Epiphany of Mary 1961 Chapter 1 As It Was in the Beginning n the beginning God created heaven and earth. And He said, “Let the earth bring forth green foliage and plants that produce “Iseed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit on the earth according to its kind, having seed within itself.” And it was so done . And God saw that it was good.” And God said, “Behold I have given you every seed bearing plant upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your food.” (Genesis 1: 1, 11, 29) And the serpent said to the woman, “No you shall not die the death . On whatever day you shall eat from it, your eyes will be opened” . And the woman saw the tree was good to eat and delightful to behold, with a delicious appearance. And she took the fruit and ate. (Genesis 3: 4-6) Thus the Bible tells us about the beginning of all things: the com- mencement of man’s history. Appearing on the first and most decisive scene of our destiny: God, the evil spirit, a woman, and the mysterious apple tree. And so were enacted the world’s first sin, the Creator’s first 3 She Went in Haste to the Mountain pardon, the beginning of an existence marked by labor and pain, but not without hope. What took place at the beginning of history—mankind’s great adven- ture—also happened at the beginning of another adventure—the epic of Garabandal. In the little mountain village of San Sebastián de Garabandal,1 century after century had passed without history; then one day . A Sunday Like Any Other The calendars in the kitchens2 were turned to the page for June, 1961, showing: Sunday, the 18th. St. Ephrem, Doctor of the Church, Sts. Mark and Marcellian, martyrs. So what? It was just one more among the count- less days that passed without event in the little world of Garabandal. Nothing ever happened there worth telling. It was in the great world on the other side of the mountain where things were happening. Most of these were disturbing: men and nations stirred up with unrest, greed, anxiety, revolts; worried about the future with cold wars and real ones on all fronts. What did the coming days hold? As a ray of hope in the face of all these problems that appeared to have no human solution, within the walls of the Catholic Church in Rome plans were underway with great anticipation to prepare a new council: Vatican II. It would be convened by John XXIII, Good Pope John, as many called him affectionately. Even with his eighty years, this man spoke 1. There are approximately sixty houses in the village, built of stone, and arranged in typi- cal rural style. They are grouped together on top of a narrow plain, irregular in outline, about 2,000 feet above sea level, giving the appearance of a wide open Y. The entrance to the village is from the bottom of this Y, that points downward to a river below flowing into the Cantabrian Sea. An extremely bad road comes up from Cossío some six kilometers away. The upper part of the Y opens toward the south-southwest to a magnificent display of mountain peaks ending on the one side with the Peña Sagra chain (2,016 meters) and on the other side, farther away and more to the south, with the Peña Labra chain (2,010 meters) that overlooks vast sections of the provinces of Palencia and Santander. From here rivers flow toward three bodies of water: the Cantabrian Sea, the Mediterranean (by way of the Ebre River), and the Atlantic Ocean (by way of the Pisuerga River). In this region, Garabandal is the last village before those imposing mountain ranges from which it is sep- arated by miles of silence and solitude amid terrain of savage beauty. 2. The most popular calendars in those days were put out by the Capuchines in Santander who published the magazine El Santo in honor of St. Anthony of Padua. 4 As It Was in the Beginning with inspiration and hope in his heart like the blossoming of flowers in springtime.3 Through his efforts and by his decree, hundreds of eminent scholars set out to sound out the world, seeking to assist it.4 As a result of their search, things like these were soon to be proclaimed to the council assembly: Though mankind is struck with amazement by its own discoveries and power, it often raises anxious questions about the present evolution of the world, about the place and the mission of man himself in the universe, about the meaning of his individual and collective efforts, and about the final destiny of reality and of humanity. History itself is undergoing such a process of acceleration that it is hardly possible for man to follow it. We all pursue the same fate, and we are not able to disassociate ourselves into separate individual cases. Such a rapid change, realized in the upset, gives birth to or increases the contradictions and disorder. So the modern world appears at the same time both powerful and weak, capable of the best and the worst, for there is a choice between the road to lib- erty and that to slavery, toward progress or toward decay, toward love or toward hate. These disorders are related to another disorder, truly fundamental, which finds its roots in the very heart of each man . a weak and sinful crea- ture who often does what he does not wish to do and neglects what he ought to do and ought to accomplish. (Catechism of Modern Man) In that grave hour of history when so many things were happening or were about to happen in the world, it would never have occurred to any- one that something important could take place at San Sebastián de Gara- bandal. This village seemed buried in oblivion, lost in the distance. Life there was continuing the same as it had for years, perhaps for centuries. Today, like yesterday; tomorrow, like today. And always the same: a gray sky.5 Of course the sky in San Sebastián was not always gray, even though it is near to the rainy Cantabrian Mountains; but the life of its inhabitants 3. On January 25th, 1959, the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, in the famous Basilica St. Paul Outside the Walls, the Pope publicly announced his proposal to convoke a new coun- cil. 4. On June 18th of that year, Cardinal Tardini, president of the Preparatory Commission, wrote to the cardinals, bishops, and the heads of religious orders, Catholic universities and seminaries requesting suggestions and topics for the council.
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