Ida Peerdeman
Peerdeman was born on 13 August 1905 in the city of Alkmaar, in Holland. The youngest of five siblings, she was an average woman who worked in a perfume factory, and God was the centre of her life. She said she was aged 40 when the apparitions began on the Feast of the Annunciation. Her confessor, Father Frehe, was visiting the family, and Ida recalled seeing a light from the corner of the room. From it came a woman who revealed herself as the “Lady of All Nations", and instructed her to repeat everything she was told. Ida did so, and Father Frehe ordered her sister to write down every word. This reportedly occurred in 1945, while Nazi Germany still occupied the Netherlands. Ida claimed that she had seen the Virgin Mary as she was huddled by a stove with her sisters and priest chatting about the war and the possibilities of what could happen in the future. Ida suffered attacks both from the Church and, she said, from demons for believing in the apparition of The Lady of All Nations until her death in 1996.
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