Photos From Father Joseph Nguyen Taken August 30,2009

The following photos were all taken by Father Joseph Nguyen last Sunday, August 30 after the healing service in The Our Lady Mother of Mercy Chapel.





Wait until you see what happened inside the chapel in his next photos.

Photo From Sunday August 30 Healing Service

This photo was taken from in front of The Our Lady Mother of Mercy Chapel shortly after the Healing Service ended as the sun was spinning overhead.

More Visitor Photos...Thanks For Sharing

Photo From August 3rd Day of Prayer

Yesterday was a very moving day for those in attendance. Families came from all over and had picnic baskets in tow. The speakers were awesome!

Larry spoke to us up on Holy Family Hill and told us all about things that have happened there. I could have listened all night.

The sun was spinning all afternoon. It got really remarkable when we came out after Irv Kloska gave his talk in the big chapel and prayed over everybody. This is just a few of the pictures from a visitor.

Recent Visitor Photos

Somebody make sure you take that kid with you when you leave. Bath night isn't until tomorrow night!
Notice the cross that appeared on the side of the building?


Father Dave blesses the families after the prayer service. He also showed us his remarkable chasuble that had been made by American Indians. VERY Cool!



"Irvin the Magnificent" performs his great disappearing act on Larry....again!


Dramatic Light Shows (Sun Spinning)

Follow-up To Friday June 26th Day of Prayer at Sylvan Springs

These photos were all taken last evening after the Friday Night Rosary from in front of The Our Lady Mother of Mercy Chapel. The sun was spinning quite wonderfully at the time and these are just some of the images captured by one of the pilgrims who had driven several hours to pray with us.






More photos coming. They are even more awesome!

Photo From June 13th Family Prayer Gathering

This photo was taken by a visitor witnessing the spinning sun while walking back from Holy Family Hill.

Photos of Sun Spinning Taken at Sylvan Springs

We want to thank Patti for sending these photos taken from her friend's camera while they visited Sylvan Springs yesterday before the Friday Night Rosary while the sun was spinning.

It is hard to describe it to others if they have never seen it themselves.









"BRING ME MY CHILDREN. BRING ME ALL OF MY CHILDREN."

Archbishop Leibold's Nephew Reports Miracle of The Sun at Sylvan Springs

We have received a few inquiries lately regarding this post which originally ran on this blog in December of 2006. Some have asked if we would re-publish it. Here it is!

This item was originally published on SpiritDaily.com. It was written by the nephew of Archbishop Paul Leibold as he told of his experience on July 14, 2001 on his first visit to Rome City, IN.
Archbishop Leibold had been the long-time spiritual director of Sr. Neuzil and had issued the Imprimaturs to her texts and commissioned a medal, plaque and statue in the image of Our Lady of America. The following is presented here for your discernment.

ARCHBISHOP'S NEPHEW RELATES STRIKING OCCURRENCE AT AMERICAN APPARITION SITE
A nephew of Archbishop Paul F. Leibold has informed us of an extraordinary visit to the site where Sister Mildred Mary Ephrem Neuzil, the American seer, had her first apparitions.

The nephew, whose name is also Paul Leibold, and who was especially close to the now-deceased archbishop, says that during a spur-of-the moment visit on July 14 to a spot called Sylvan Springs near Rome City, Indiana, he and a small group experienced the "miracle of the sun" and that he spotted a beautifully strange blue butterfly that brings to mind phenomena reported at another apparition site in Venezuela called Betania (which he had not heard about previous to the experience).

According to Paul (who we will call by his first name to differentiate him from the archbishop), he made the trip after reading articles about the situation on this internet site and was surprised by what he found. He and 11 others piled a recreational vehicle and headed five hours up the highway that recent Saturday.

There they found the current owner of the land, Larry Young.

"We took off to the mound where the third apparition was," says Paul, who now owns a pharmacy in the Cincinnati area.




"We said we were going to pray a family rosary, and there was another couple that had arrived just after we did, Angel and his wife Maria and their son Angel Junior.


We were getting ready to start the rosary and Larry looked at the sun and we began to see the miracle of the sun. When I was at Medjugorje we did not see the miracle of the sun. Someone with me had, and he said it was absolutely identical to what he saw on that mound.

"The next 15 to 20 minutes we sat or stood in prayer, some were kneeling and some were singing. Maria began praying over my son, who has epilepsy. I was as touched as I ever have been in prayer. As another man, Tom breaks into the song Ave Maria, a little blue butterfly lands on an altar and it was just, oh!- There was no doubt the Blessed Mother was with us, blessing us. It was solid pale blue, and absolutely beautiful.

It was a wonderful experience. It just stopped my heart. I was the only one to see it. The others were watching the sun. It just hovered over the altar area. Apparently this altar once had a gold cross and two angels facing it. There had been these black and orange butterflies in the area with no logical reason for them to be there. It's not a flowered area. It's on a mound with mulch on the ground and trees up around it and benches. These little butterflies became more and more prominent as we began talking and sharing, and then Tom broke into Ave Maria. When we got back to the parking lot Angel had some holy cards and it was the Blessed Sacrament and a gold cross with an angel on either side. There was confirmation after confirmation."

Paul had been to Medjugorje, where his experience in prayer on Apparition Hill had been so profound he never thought he would feel that way again -- knowing God was so present. "Well when I went to Rome City I had that same feeling," said Paul, "and I had had no expectations."


It was on September 25, 1956, that Sister Mildred was making a holy hour from 7 to 8 p.m. when she felt the distinct presence of Our Lady at the Indiana site. "I was under the impression that she came as Our Lady of Lourdes, and she herself confirmed this," the nun, who died last year, once wrote -- adding that the Virgin promised great miracles in the United States.

During a vision the next morning the Virgin came in a veil, robe, and mantle of pure white as "Our Lady of America," requesting Americans to honor her by the purity of their lives.


Now the owner of the land reports that people are making inquiries about the land and pilgrims are arriving on weekends at this spot that was once owned by the Order of the Precious Blood (at the time the order to which Sister Neuzil belonged).