Case file · Apparition / miracle
Our Lady of Graces at Cimbres
From 6 August 1936 two girls, Maria da Luz and Maria da Conceição, reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary on the Ororubá hills near Cimbres, Pesqueira, in Pernambuco. They said she warned of coming punishment for Brazil.
1936 CE · -8.36, -36.69 · status: account
The account
The bishop of Pesqueira sent Father José Kehrle to investigate, and his diary survives. The site became a shrine with large pilgrimages. It lies in the territory of the Xukuru people, for whom the hill is also sacred.
The sceptical view
The Vatican has not recognised the apparitions, and their warnings echoed the anti-communist mood of 1930s Brazil.