TODAY IN GARABANDAL HISTORY NOVEMBER 7,1967 The Artist who drew and painted Mary’s image, Isabel Daganzo at Garabandal, started work. From November 7-15,1967 , Painter Isabel Daganzo ( who lived in Barcelona ) drew and painted on canvas the images of our Blessed Mother, under Conchita’s guidance in 1967. "I showed her, among several sketches, the one of Our Lady of Garabandal—she had directed me how to do it, first in the village and then in Pamplona—from which came the image that is venerated today in the chapel of the Archangel St. Michael in Garabandal, also reproduced in colored holy cards that are all over the world."- Isabel Daganzo
TODAY IN GARABANDAL HISTORY NOVEMBER 8,1966 Notes recorded by Mother Nieves ( the Directress of Conchita's college ) "Conchita's Recollections" Conchita: " Helping others has done me much good. When I visited the hospitals, I noticed that I benefited. Then I remembered the things that attracted me at other times — like amusements, fine clothes — and I saw that they weren't worth the trouble." "She went in haste to the Mountain" Book 2 ch.3 pg. 88
TODAY IN GARABANDAL HISTORY NOVEMBER 9,1966 Notes recorded by Mother Nieves ( the directress of Conchita's college ) "Conchita's Recollections" Mother Nieves tried to lift up her spirits, telling her that when the (spiritual ) darkness passed she would enter into the fullness of God . Conchita— "What a joy if it were like that! But could I possibly experience more joy than I have experienced in the past? The apparitions of the Virgin filled me with happiness. But the locutions of Jesus are much better. I don't understand ... It is something superior ... I pray that He accomplishes His will in me." --------------------------------------------------------------- Remember that this in now 1966, Conchita has no more visions or locutions, and the absence of those causes her to experience some " spiritual darkness". Who of us wouldn't be saddened after 4 years of contact with our Blessed Mother and Jesus ,and then nothing ?
GARABANDAL CONFERENCE IN TORONTO 11-9-96 WITH JOEY LOMANGINO AND JACINTA MOYNIHAN. I thought it would be a wonderful for those of you who have never heard Joey speak about his life, accident, conversion, meeting Padre Pio, trips to Garabandal, and the Warning and Miracle. I was blessed to accompany Joey and Marilyn Lomangino to Toronto for this Garabandal conference. At about the 51:25 mark of this home made video, and the end of Joey’s talk, you can see people lined up to meet Jacinta and venerate the crucifix our Blessed Mother kissed. Also another line to meet Joey & Marilyn Lomangino , and venerate the large medal our Blessed Mother kissed. Here is the You Tube link :
Conchita enters Boarding School. In 1966, Maria de las Nieves, held at that time the position of Superior of the school in Burgos, at Congregation of Missionary Conceptionists Teaching Sisters of the Immaculate Conception. In 1966 was one of the largest schools in the city that had a boarding school for girls, which was common among religious schools. Mother Nieves: "Conchita would remain "undercover" so that the students, her teachers, and the other nuns wouldn’t know who she was. Conchita's baptismal name is María Concepción, so we all agreed to call her Maria. That name was later used, and avoided her being recognized as "Conchita, the visionary of Garabandal." Mother Nieves: "Conchita stayed at our school, a full season and the first quarter of the following year. I could well say that the 1966-67 course was not complete, but more than complete, this is because during the summer holidays, Conchita did not fully enjoy them at her Garabandal house, since she preferred to spend a month of your vacation at our college. Conchita found in my school the acceptance and understanding on my part. And that made her feel good, since from the beginning of the apparitions, Conchita suffered a lot of incomprehension from those closest to her. In the same way that the girls of Garabandal did not lack people who believed in them, they also never lacked the cross of incomprehension from the beginning. Conchita speaks of this even in her famous diary which she wrote between 1962 and 1963 and which is very well known, because this diary was published. " "Although she had attended her village's school with a well-meaning teacher, the teaching resources there were scarce. In addition, during those years in rural Spain, schooling took second place when extra hands were needed in the fields. Mathematics and language were not a priority for a young girl in a remote village in the middle of the Cantabrian mountains. To bring her up-to-date, we gave her general culture courses and a typing course, subjects that most adolescent girls had already studied." "Conchita was very smart, but she had a huge cultural gap. She asked me questions about very elementary things that she was unaware of due to the isolated environment of her village in Santander. She was smart, but not a "know-it-all" kind of a girl. She was very simple, and asked me questions with complete trust. I remember that on one occasion she asked what communism was. She had heard the Blessed Virgin speak about it and she didn’t know what she referred to."
