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At Heede, Emsland in Germany, an apparition of the Our Lady calling Herself "Queen of the Poor Souls in Purgatory" appeared to observers on 105 occasions between November 1937 and November 1940.
The visionaries were four girls who were immediately taken away by a Luftwaffe detachment to a mental institution at Goettingen for psychiatric examination and released a month later unharmed. The Nazi authorities confirmed that the apparitions did not have a political purpose.
The reason why Our Lady should appear on so many occasions to the Catholic villagers of Heede remains a mystery, since the Church, while admitting the facts, declines to provide any commentary on it.
The legend of the Untersberg mountain in the 13th century arose from what appears to have been the same female apparition preaching on numerous occasions to a Knights Templar detachment within the mountain. The message passed was that virtually all souls go to Purgatory initially, and an important purpose of our lives should be direct prayer in order to obtain their, and later our own, release.
In Her apparition to a monastic Order at Aylesford, England in July 1251, the apparition describing Herself as Our Lady of Mount Carmel confirmed that She was Queen of the Souls in Purgatory and would descend there every seven days into order to save those who recognized Her in a specific way.
Incidentally the word "reincarnation" or similar was never mentioned in the Untersberg revelations, but there is a hint that certain, but by no means all, souls may return to the Earth. The Christianity of the Untersberg is simple and unencumbered with the baggage of the Churches.
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