DIAMOND STAR CONSTELLATION

THE NECEDAH APPARITIONS 

We owe our start to these apparitions and our work is very much interwoven with these revelations.  We have studied these Marian Apparitions much more in-depth than any other apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  We have just recently published an in-depth study and defense of this apparition entitled, TRIAL BY DECEPTION:  THE TRUTH DENIED by Kenneth G. Van Hoof.  (See our Publications Catalog).

In 1950 the Mother of God appeared to a simple and poor farm woman, Mary Ann Van Hoof, in sandy central Wisconsin warning of a great conspiracy of Satan to subvert American, the Roman Catholic church and society in general.  The Blessed Virgin Mary warned of an evil plot to set up a world government and a world church. She warned of a great chastisement and admonished people to mend their ways and to return to a more devoted and holier way of life. She asked for a Constant Vigil of Prayer to save America. This Woman of the Apocalypse asked for us to in­vestigate our laws, to be villigent and to save the unborm. She also asked for a House of Prayer to be built on the apparitions site. A great deal of revelations and prophecies were given through the years (1950-1984) concerning history, government, the Church, society, health and much more. (Much of this documented revelation was written up in MARIAN APPARITIONS AND APOCALYPTIC RESEARCH - see Publications Catalog). 

The Catholic Church did much to suppress this apparition as did the Men-In-Black. Therefore an independent organization, For My God and My Country, Inc. was set up to run the Shrine and to publish the revelations. This effort was formally organized in 1958 when this organization was founded.

In the 1970s a more serious effort was made to study these revelations and what they pertained to. DIAMOND STAR RESEARCH was founded in 1980 to fulfill this need and to do in-depth documentation as well. This research was not only undertaken to study and document these revelations but to correlate them with other revelations of Mary's apparitions. 

The Necedah Apparitions are one of the most suppressed apparitions in history but at the same time Necedah's revelations are the most hard-hitting and timely messages of all time. The full magni­tude and importance of these revelations has yet to be fully realized.

MARY ANN VAN HOOF HIRT:
MOTHER AND MYSTIC - WIFE AND VICTIM SOUL

The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Mary Ann Van Hoof over a period of 34 years as the Queen of the Holy Rosary, Mediatrix of Peace, Mediatrix Between God and Man. The shrine She founded bears this title.

Mary Ann was born on July 31, 1909, was the wife of Godfred  Van Hoof and the mother of eight children.  They lived on the outskirts of Necedah (an Indian name meaning "Land of Yellow Waters"), on a small, sandy, dairy farm in central Wisconsin. 

It was here where she was favored with Heavenly visitations starting November 12, 1949. Other important anniversary days, of these appearances of the Mother of God are April 7, May 28, 29, 30, June 4 and 16, August 15, and October 7. Other appearances occurred in following years be­ginning with December 8th. 

She also has had visions of the Nativity of Our Lord, Jesus Christ on the last Friday of Advent before Christmas; visioned and suffered the Passion of Our Lord on Fridays of-and Lent; and visioned the Last Supper on Holy Thursday and the First Mass on Good Friday. In addition to this she visioned the Iron Gates of Russia opened as well as traveling in vision to the subterranean arse­nal under the ice in Siberia. 

In this 34 year period she received many dire warnings of the enemy of God, the Serpent's plan of destruction and the coming chastisement from God.

In addition to suffering the passion for 30 years (suffering the wounds of the Crown of Thorns -visible in 1951-52 afterwards inwardly only), she endured sufferings from 1954 to I960 which made her an invalid in a wheel chair. This was followed by a miraculous cure by St. Joseph and she was able to walk the rest of her life. 

Her husband Godfred died of leukemia in I960 but it wasn't until 1977 that she was remarried to Ray Hirt. During the late 1970s to the time of her death on March 18, 1984 she endured extreme sufferings, becoming confined to a hospital bed the last I to 2 months of her life.

During her life as mystic she was favored with the gift of bi-location and of prophecy. She could tell if a visitor was a priest even though he was in disguise as a layman and gave no indication in conversation.

She received relentless persecutions and threats since the apparitions began. Strangers in black would prowl about her home at dark often threatening to do her bodily harm or to hurt her fam­ily. There were two attempts to kidnap her and she was shot at in her home at least once. Her home (the old farmhouse) burned in 1959. All of this was done by the same sinister forces. 

At the other end of the spectrum she was given many privileges by Heaven of visions of the Holy Trinity of God, the Nativity of Christ, the Assumption of the Mother of God plus other privileges previously mentioned. She has had many visitations by the Holy Mother, Christ as well as countless angels and saints. She was also given a most important vision and revelation by an angel (the secret of Necedah - which has never been released) about the universe, the Chas­tisement, and the renewal of our earth after the period of the Chastisement.
 

"You faced death four times. The sister who took care of you in the hospital, she is with us now. You felt very close to her during her devotion and her tireless effort and vigils to keep you alive.

"From childhood on, until today, the Stations of the Cross have made your heart heavy, and you shed tears because My Son's sufferings grieved you. This is why I chose you. My child."

APPARITIONS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN NARY

Revelations, apparitions, visions and miracles have been occurring since the time of Adam and Eve. Both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible contain accounts of such events. Accounts of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, of angels and other celestial beings have been occur­ring with increasing frequency in recent times. 

As of 1990 over 300 apparitions of the Blessed Virgin have occurred in the 20th Century according to Marian Communications, Ltd., Lima, Pennsylvania.  The increasing frequency of Marian apparitions has prompted Cardinal Ratzinger to state: "One of the signs of our times is that the announcements of 'Marian Apparitions' are multiplying all over the world." (The Ratzinger Report)

From 1923 to 1975 according to the study of theologian Bernard Billets, 232 separate Marian apparitions were reported in 32 countries. The many reported apparitions have presented a pastoral problem for the Church.  (Knowing the subversion that exists within the Church complicates matters even more.) Yet the proper treatment of these  appearances of the Mother of God is the great and heavy responsibility of the Church Authority.  Apparitions or visions of any Celestial visitation is more often than not, accompanied by revelation in the form of instructions, warnings, etc., to an individual chosen to carry forth those reve­lations. The person chosen for this is known as a seer (if a man) or a seeress (if a woman) and is also referred to as a mystic. The Blessed Mother has referred to such a person as "Chosen Child." 

The Catholic encyclopedia refers to the two kinds of revelations:
 

(2)      particular or private revelations which are constantly occurring among Christians. When the Church approves private revelations, she declares only that there is nothing in them contrary to faith or good morals." (Catholic encyclopedia, Vol. XIII, p.5)

Furthermore we have the decree approval by Pope Paul VI concerning private revelations and on publications which deal with accounts, etc. of private revelations. This decree took/effect on October 14, 1966 and reads as follows:

"The Canon 1399 forbade by right the publication of certain books such as those that deal with revelations, visions, prophecies and miracles.

"This Canon has been repealed. This means that as far as these publications are concerned, the prohibition is lifted as to their being bound by ecclesiastical law.
 

"There is hence no longer any prohibition concerning the narrative of seers, be they recognized or not by ecclesiastical authority.
 

"All the more reason is it permitted for Catholics to frequent places of apparitions, even those not recognized by the ordinaries of the dioceses or by the Holy Father: Granted that the Catholic visitors who frequent these places must respect the Faith and the Morals. However, they are not subject to any ecclesiastical discipline, not even for their public prayers. Permission is required only for the celebration of Holy Mass or any other religious service.

"Canon 2318 carried penalties against those who violated the laws of censure and prohibition. /This Canon is abrogated since 1966. None can incur ecclesiastical censure for frequenting places of apparitions even those not recognized by the ordinaries of the dioceses or by the Holy Father.

"Also, those who would have incurred the censures treated in Canon 2318 will be like absolved by the very fact of the abrogation of this Canon.

A. Cardinal Ottaviani, Pro-prefect P. Parente, Secretary

Diamond Star has researched this decree on private revelation In the early 1980's. A member of Diamond Star Re­search went to Rome and obtained three official copies from the Vatican. Although the three copies were in three different languages (English, Italian and Latin) all said essentially the same thing, attesting to the authenticity of the text.

In the matter of the discernment of apparitions, Father John Koza of St. Andrews Byzantine Catholic Church in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, puts it this way:

"The discernment of apparitions has always presented the church with a challenge. The report of a person being able to see something invisible, such as an apparition, generally puts the church in a dilemma which it must try to face when these apparitions do occur. Nevertheless ... 'the Church has always dealt with these concerns. It does so, after all, with faith. The same Lord who creates apparitions has also fashioned the institution that must sometimes measure them.'

"Miracles, apparitions and other supernatural manifestations have been recognized and are wel­comed by the Church. However, the acceptance has always been accompanied by a built in pru­dence; a caution which the Church believes, and should be, its responsibility." (The Discernment of Apparitions by Fr. John Koza, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Spring, 1992, p 5.)

However, one must realize that the Catholic Church has been infiltrated to a marked degree by the Yiddish Zionists and Masons who do not want the truth of the Blessed Virgin's message to reach the faithful. Therefore it must be recognized that there is a conflict within the Church itself as to how to deal with apparitions. Church authority may be used as a two-edged sword, either to prudently investigate to discern and ascertain the truth, or to stamp out the apparition and sup­press the truth.

With this in mind, we continue with the Church's guidelines which in prudence have been laid down concerning apparitions and revelations. From Father John Koza's research we learn:

"Approved apparitions should exhibit certain characteristics... if they truly sprang from a Divine source, they would: manifest a hidden presence of God, renew community life, convert hearts, reawaken and stimulate faith, and renew hope and dynamism in the Church.

"Generally, experience proved, there were categories into which studied apparitions eventually fell. The lowest category of evaluation labeled a reported apparition as 'not worthy of belief!' It did not, according to the judges, exhibit the characteristics which are anticipated characteristics or hallmarks of an apparition of supernatural origin.

"The second category assigned a somewhat neutral judgment to the event - 'nothing contrary to the Faith...' The local church, in its own best lights, suggested that the reported event might or might not be the result of supernatural intervention.

"The third category included the apparitions which are today called 'approved' or 'recognized' by the Church. These, it is said, were 'worthy of belief by the faithful and showed the distinguishing traits of an occurrence arranged by God." (Ibid)

This brings us to what His Excellency, the Bishop of Liege, Belgium, had to say in regard to private revelation (those of the Most Holy Virgin at Banneux from January 15 to March 3, 1933). We quote in part:

"In the first place, it is not necessary for us to have an authentic judgment of the Church in or­der to admit the truth of the apparitions; we can accept them either on the basis of personal study of the fact themselves, of their development and their effects; or on the authority of persons whose knowledge, prudence and piety we know; or on the basis of special favors which we might have received... This personal conviction may be expressed in private acts of piety. Do not forget that the most important final decision must be pronounced by men. These men will be enlightened regarding these facts more quickly and more fully, and their sentence will be prompter and more explicit. Prayer can obtain for them the light they need to lead their investiga­tions in the best direction, to furnish them with even miraculous favors, capable of removing the least doubts." (For the complete text see vol. I of "My Work With Necedah" by Henry Swan.)

We note that the Bishop of Liege refers to the personal study of the facts and also to enlighten­ment through prayer. We need to have documented facts concerning private revelation which will bring scientific evidence in to support or discern the truth of such revelation (the religious aspect) on the one hand and the documentation (the scientific aspect) on the other. This will help us to arrive at the ultimate truth.