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PART THREE
THE BATTLEFIELD
Ida Peedersen (b. Alkmaar 1905, d. Amsterdam 1996) was a person described as being gifted with slight clairvoyance but lacking in imagination. She shared a house in Amsterdam with her sisters. These sisters would usually be present during the apparitions of the Virgin and the eldest would note down the words which Ida spoke, repeating what the Virgin said.
The greater part of what was told to Ida Peedersen consisted of predictions, and justifications of Our Lady's claim as Co-Redemptrix based on difficult to understand interpretations of New Testament text. The purpose was to bury the true intent beneath a mass of wordage such as is familiar to Catholics, thus saying nothing to alarm the faithful nor undermine their faith.
What I have done here is extract the underlying statement of intent made by Our Lady of All Nations ("Onze Vrouwe van alle volkeren") in 56 apparitions to Ida Peedersen between 1945 and 1959. What can be deduced but is not obvious on the face of it is:
(i) the intention to destroy the Church and all world religions,
(ii) to profit by certain apocalyptic circumstances during which Our Lady of All Nations unites all surviving creeds and races in one form of devotion to Herself and
(iii) verifies Her bona-fides in the form of numerology based on dates past and present.
It may be useful to draw up a simple letter-to-number conversion table, A=1 through to Z=26 in the English alphabet. For example, 56 apparitions to Ida by an entity perhaps sheltering behind the appellation Our Lady of All Nations, ISIS and also NEITH both equal 56. This number 56 will recur during this account.
1. The first apparition occurred on 25 March 1945 at Amsterdam. This date is the 600th anniversary of the Eucharistic Miracle of Amsterdam. In the 45th Apparition, Our Lady of All Nations declared Amsterdam to be Her seat, it being the city of the Blessed Sacrament.
2. 11 February is the Feast Day of The Immaculate Conception. She appeared for the first time at Lourdes on 11 February 1858. Ninety-three years later to the day, on 11 February 1951 at Amsterdam, the Virgin stated: "I have come precisely on this day to tell you that I wish to be known as Our Lady (or Our Mother) of All Nations." Then She delivered her "Prayer" in which She cast aside her identity as Mary, Mother of Jesus. This prayer caused all the furore which followed:
"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father,
Send now your spirit over the Earth.
Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of All Peoples
That they may be preserved from degeneration, disaster and war.
May the Lady of All Peoples who once was Mary be our Advocate.
Amen".
There was an objection by the Church to the last line. Answer: "The words must remain. Tell the theologians that I am not satisfied with the change in the prayer."
31st Apparition, 15 April 1951: "The Son came into the world as the Redeemer of mankind. The work of Redemption was the Cross. He was sent by the Father. Now, however, the Father and Son want to send Our Lady throughout the whole world."
32nd Apparition: "I stand here as Co-Redemptrix and Advocate. The new dogma will be "the dogma of the Co-Redemptrix."
The Church would not have it and now resorted to written instructions. The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared: "On 7 May 1956, the Bishop of the Diocese of Haarlem (Netherlands), following a careful examination of the case concerning the supposed apparitions and revelations of "Our Lady of All Nations" said to have taken place in Amsterdam, finds no evidence of the supernatural nature of the apparitions and therefore prohibits public veneration attributing a supernatural origin to them..."
On 2 March 1957 the same Ordinary repeated the above statement, and in a letter dated 13 March 1957 the Holy Office praised the Bishop's prudence and pastoral concern, and approved of the measures taken. In reply to an enquiry by the Bishop of Haarlem on 29 March 1972, the Sacred Congregation confirmed the previous two decisions on 24 May 1972.
On 25 May 1974 the Sacred Congregation "after a fresh and deeper examination of the case" confirmed the previous judgment, and invited priests and laity to discontinue all forms of propaganda with regard to the alleged apparitions and revelations of "Our Lady of All Nations" and "exhorted all, moreover, to express their devotion to the Most Holy Virgin, Queen of the Universe, by forms of piety recognized and recommended by the Church."
It is interesting to note in the final sentence above that the apparition at Heede in 1939 had been authenticated, this being the first time the Church had ever admitted a description of the Virgin higher than "Queen of Heaven".
In 2002 or sometime thereabouts, the Bishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Msgr.Punt, accepted that the apparitions and revelations of "Our Lady of All Nations" had been supernatural. The Sacred Congregation still saw the danger in the Prayer of Our Lady of All Nations, and insisted that the words "who once was Mary" be omitted "out of consideration for those who do not understand the phrase", i.e the entire Catholic clergy and pious from the Pope down. The Sacred Congregation altered the last line of the Prayer to read:
"May the Lady of All Nations, the Blessed Virgin Mary, be our Advocate."
They ignored Her request to be Co-Redeemer and Advocate, and though prepared to recognize Her as "Our Lady of All Nations (or Peoples)" the phrase "who once was Mary" was forever inadmissible.
And so what occurred to make the Church realize that the Amsterdam apparitions had been "supernatural" after all? In PART FOUR, the answer to everything, and the numerology.
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