EXTREMELY RARE cult / commune Dbl Album, we have NEVER seen another up for sale anywhere. It started as a Virgin Mary apparition that drew over 100,000 people at a time, turned into a church ex-communication and a cult, with many brushes with the law.
HEAR SNIPPETS OF VAN HOOF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI0MH7dr5kI&t=1s
HEAR SONGS FROM THE RECORD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWGSQjutyQs&t=253s
Necedah Shrine, officially the Queen of the Holy Rosary, Mediatrix of Peace Shrine, is a Marian shrine located in Necedah, Wisconsin. On November 12, 1949, Mary Ann Van Hoof (1909–1984) reported receiving a vision from the Blessed Virgin Mary. She claimed that in subsequent visions she was told to "bring the truth to people" through prayer and the rosary. The Roman Catholic Church investigated and found the reported visions and other phenomena indisputably faked, and when Van Hoof and her followers refused to desist, put her under interdict. Van Hoof and her followers then left the Roman Catholic Church and joined themselves to the Old Catholic movement.
In 1956 Mrs. Van Hoof claimed to have been made aware of certain revelations made by the Madonna to George Washington concerning various trials his country would experience. Mrs. Van Hoof also claimed the ability to interpret these revelations.The purported revelations also contain references to imminent chastisement, a thermonuclear World War III, Soviet submarines, and accusations that the Roman Catholic hierarchy and Papacy had been subverted.
Since 1975, the shrine has continued to operate, but has disaffiliated from the Roman Catholic Church, and affiliated instead with an Old Catholic, conservative independent organization. The shrine runs a private primary school, established in 1982, and a visitor center. Believers are building a new "House of Prayer" at the spot of the visions. Seven Sorrows of Our Sorrowful Mother's Home for Unwanted Infants - The name of the orphanage that used to be run by this community in the 1970s.
In 2008, the remains of a 90 year old woman were found on a parishioners toilet. The church had been collecting her Social Security for months after her death. There have been other investigations, including murder, over the years. The Shrine remains open, but women must leave if they are not fully covered-up. Parishioners often follow visitors at a distance. There is a massive foundation for a church that remains unfinished next to the displays.