Known as the seer of Bayside, Veronica Leuken began having unusual experiences in 1968 when St. Therese, ‘The Little Flower,’ appeared to her and told her to write down her poems and the things she would see. Leuken was a wife and mother of five children in Bayside, New York, USA.
The Manifestation of Our Lady of the Roses
In the first vision of Our Blessed Lady, the Virgin Mary asked Veronica Leuken to hold prayer vigils at a local church which began in 1970 and continue today, at the St. Robert Bellarmine Church and to have special “Rosary Vigils on the Eve of Feast Days.” These were to commence for the purpose of prayer, penance and atonement.
Our Lady of the Roses appeared to Veronica Leuken as Our Lady of Grace with a wreath of roses around her forehead. On the statues depicted of Our Lady of the Roses, Mary has fresh flower wreaths placed around her head regularly.
The Message of Our Lady of the Roses
Veronica Leuken was told by the Blessed Virgin Mary that the shrine was to become a place for prayer, peace and atonement, as well as, redemption, grace and peace. But it has become much more.
Being the site of many miraculous photographs, the shrine of Our Lady of the Roses may be second only to Medjugorje in Miraculous Images. Many healings and other kinds of miracles have taken place at the shrine, too innumerable to mention.
Many of the messages that Veronica Leuken received included detailed visions of the Life and Death of Jesus Christ, the work and structure of Guardian Angels, and much information about the Holy Rosary and the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
And despite the death of Veronica Leuken in 1995, Our Lady promised that her presence would remain there until the time of the Second Coming of Christ and many graces still come from this unusual shrine in Bayside, New York.
An older apparition occurred around the time of St. Dominic as Our Lady of the Rosary, but another modern apparition actually caught on film happened in the late 20th century as Our Lady of Zeitoun, Egypt.
Sources:
- Those who Saw Her: Apparitions of Mary - Catherine M. Odell
- Catherine Laboure and the Modern Apparitions of Our Lady - By Abbe Omer Englebert
- Miraculous Images: Photographs Containing God's Fingerprints - By Marilynn Hughes
- Medjugorje: Light for the World - By Pietro Jacopini
- Our Lady Comes to Garabandal - By Joseph A. Pelletier, A.A.
- The Wonder of Guadalupe - By Francis Johnston
- The Glories of Czestochowa and Jasna, To the Priests Our Lady's Beloved Sons - Marian Movement of Priests
- Our Lady of America - By Sister Mildred Mary Neuzil
- The Thunder of Justice - By Ted and Maureen Flynn
