The Catholic Defender: Reports of the Virgin Mary At Ngome South Africa.

In 1992 Bishop Bisaye blessed an open air part of a bigger chapel and allowed for the Marian Shrine to be designated a place of prayer so that organized pilgrimages was now activrly permitted.

“Our Lady of Ngome” (South Africa, 1955-1971; or Our Lady of the Tabernacle of the Most High); Virgin Mary appeared to a the Servant of God Sister May, a nun, and identified herself as “The Tabernacle of the Most High”; she also had an apparition of the devil, but then "Mother Mary, the Tabernacle of the Most High"

The local bishop initially did not support veneration of the Virgin Mary at the site, but the site became popular with pilgrims. Today, visitors can pray at the shrine and visit the grave of Sister Reinolda at the Benedictine Inkamana Monastery.

Ngome began as a shrine after alleged Marian apparitions. These apparitions were to the servant of God, Sr. Reinolda Franziska May OSB (Order of Saint Benedict). The alleged apparitions gave rise to the place becoming the most-visited holy place in the Diocese of Eshowe- Zululand, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

The late bishop Mansuet Biyase of Eshowe gave recognition to Ngome as a place of prayer thus allowing the people to receive special graces. Worth noting, the term shrine has been commonly or loosely used here due to semantics and above all because of the relevance and impact of Ngome on the lives of people. The ongoing stability and the disposition of pilgrims to this place provide an ever-increasing hope that Ngome shall rightfully be declared a shrine in the future, (c.1230). Observing c.1208, the bishop as pastor of souls availed the place to pilgrims beyond the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Eshowe.

Earlier on, it was noted that pope Francis exhorted that we cannot forget that evangelization is first and foremost about preaching the Gospel to those who do not know Jesus Christ or who have always rejected him. Many of them are quietly seeking God, led by a yearning to see his face, even in countries of ancient Christian tradition. All of them have a right to receive the Gospel. Christians have the duty to proclaim the Gospel without excluding anyone (Pope Francis, 2013). Visiting Ngome has led some to conversion, which is as it were, a healing experience similar to an encounter of the apostle Philip with an Ethiopian eunuch who had been a pilgrim to Jerusalem. After Philip had explained the words of scriptures from the prophet Isaiah, the Ethiopian requested to be baptized and he said: See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized? And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water,

The Marian Shrine at Ngome, South Africa where the Blessed Mother is venerated under the title Tabernacle of the Most High. I only recently learned of this shrine and the associated apparitions of Our Lady to Sister Reinolda May from 1955 to 1971. It seems to be a special place of peace, reconciliation and restoration of faith.

I live in Ireland. Over the years I've read about many of the places visited by and associated with Our Lady but I hadn't known of this shrine until very recently and was just wondering if others were familiar with it. The shrine is an approved place of pilgrimage and prayer but, as far as I know, the authenticity of the apparitions and messages to Sister Reinolda May has not been decided on yet. The cause for her beatification was begun in 2014 and the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference approved the process for the cause of her beatification in August 2018.

Our Lady of Ngome is a Marian shrine in South Africa that was built after a series of alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary to a Benedictine nun in the 1950s:

Between 1955 and 1971, Sr. Reinolda May, a German missionary and midwife at the Benedictine Mission Hospital in Nongoma, reported seeing the Virgin Mary ten times. She said the Virgin Mary called herself the "Tabernacle of the Most High". During one apparition, the Virgin Mary asked Sr. Reinolda to build a shrine for her at the place where seven springs met.

The shrine
The shrine was built in Ngome, a small cattle farm 46 kilometers from Nongoma. The local bishop initially only allowed a small chapel to be built, but after Sr. Reinolda's death in 1981, a larger chapel was built and pilgrimages were encouraged.
Popularity
The shrine is now a popular pilgrimage site in South Africa and the most-visited holy place in the Diocese of Eshowe-Zululand. Some report miraculous healings from the water at the shrine.
Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Ngome, Africa 1955-1971
he Shrine of Ngome is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, who revealed herself with the title of "Tabernacle of the Most High."
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Yes, the construction of a new church at the Shrine of Ngome in South Africa was approved in 1992. The church was built after Bishop Emmanuel Mansuet Biyase allowed for the construction of a new church and encouraged pilgrimages to the site.

The Shrine of Ngome is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, who appeared to Sr. Reinolda May, a Benedictine nun, between 1955 and 1971. During one of her visions, the Virgin Mary pointed to the site of Ngome and requested that a shrine be built there. The site became a popular pilgrimage destination and is now one of the most popular in South Africa.

The Catholic Defender: Reports of the Virgin Mary At Ngome South Africa.

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