Necedah Shrine - Visions

Visions

Van Hoof reported that she received nine visions between November 12, 1949 and October 7, 1950. Pilgrims reportedly saw Van Hoof in a state of religious ecstasy. The messages she received were recorded on a tape recorder, and written in long hand by at least two people. Some were repeated word for word, but in most cases Van Hoof was inspired by her own language. 100,000 people attended the vision on August 15, 1950, and witness accounts vary significantly. Many of the messages Van Hoof received occurred at home.

Van Hoof said that she suffered the Passion of Our Lord on the Fridays of Advent and Lent, but these claims were demonstrated to be false in tests conducted under hospital conditions.

Van Hoof reported that she was told in a vision that the most perfect way of offering Mass was the Tridentine Mass approved by Saint Pius V and the Council of Trent for the Latin Church. She was reportedly told that the Novus Ordo Mass, developed in the Vatican shortly after the Second Vatican Council, was watered down. Advocates of the Tridentine Mass oppose numerous changes implemented after Vatican II.

According to the shrine newsletter, the Madonna Maria told George Washington that his beloved country would have to go through five great sieges of war, and that she would help to protect his country through each of them. She told George Washington of the great siege of war in which much of the world would be involved. The Madonna Maria also told him that there would be a battle between the white Christians and the black and yellow people; that the Evil Forces would arouse the black people against the whites, causing much severe bloodshed. She told George Washington that the Evil Forces would belittle him, and that he would be a forgotten man. The Madonna Maria told him after much bloodshed and darkness in many parts of the world, God’s love would reign over all men. These words were spoken by Mary Ann Van Hoof during her suffering and immediately following the revelations given by the Madonna Maria to the Father of our Country.

The revelations also contain references to imminent chastisement, a thermonuclear World War III, Soviet submarines, and accusations that the mainstream Roman Catholic hierarchy and Papacy had been subverted. In a February 1989 article in Fidelity Magazine Marlene Maloney quoted one of Van Hoof's messages, as detailing that the devotees of the Necedah Shrine would be spared Armageddon when, just before the world's doom, a 1,200 year-old man named Joe would come in a spaceship to save them.