Today we pick up a superb news article mainly what occurred in the supposed aparación of the Virgin of Lourdes in France.

11 of February of 1858 three children of Lourdes walks by a forest covered by the mist. One of them, Bernardette Soubirous as soon as it counts fourteen years and it undergoes frequent attacks of asthma. When arriving before a formation rocky started off by a stream, Bernardette begins to feel an asthmatic crisis and it remains straggler. The old rock is a strange place to that they call Massabielle, . Suddenly, it arrives at her a smooth wind, a rumor, that it caresses the face. Nevertheless, in the trees a leaf does not move nor. Bernardette creates to have dreamed and it get ready to cross the stream. Again that mysterious rumor makes raise the head him. Then it sees before her a light body that it literally defines as the Thing. Later, when it counts his experience, already it speaks of a young woman to whom the Young lady calls finally and the Lady. It is evident that outside what outside what saw, initially the girl did not consider an appearance mariana.

Few days later Bernardette it puts his fingers on the rock of Massabielle and, according to the legend, it is born a source that has not stopped flowing in average century and. Like the water, the voice runs of which that source builds miraculous treatments, the image of the Lady has been made official already like the Immaculate Conception, and the place becomes the greater mariano sanctuary of all Europe. This weekend Benedicto XVI will celebrate a solemn misa there to celebrate the anniversary. But peculiarly, three centuries back another called Pope Benedicto, Benedicto XIV, got to prohibit, under penalty of excommunication, the spreading by the lay ones of any class of appearances. The prohibition remained effective until Pablo suppressed I SAW it, in view of cases like those of Lourdes and Fátima.

The mythical chronicle of the city assures that in very old times princess Lorda arrived at her, coming of Egypt. The historical chronicle takes a step more: years ago, in the excavations of the castle, were Roman rest of a called fortification Lapurdum. and a small image of the Egyptian goddess Isis that, as we know, forms the archetype of all the Black Virgins who begin to extend themselves by all Europe as of century XI. That is to say, in Lourdes the magician-feminine element was already very present in its ancestral culture. And it is very possible that what saw Bernardette outside something very similar to which they saw the Roman legionaries of Lapurdum, although immediately the high instances of the Catholicism would put another name to him.

Every time has an own religiousness and myths whose dramatisation varies, but whose argument is concordant. However, she really appears the Virgin or one is phenomena of hallucination, individual and first later collective?

According to Spanish the Mariológica Association in the last millenium they have been registered more than 20,000 possible appearances of the Virgin. In principle already it is disquieting that no of them has taken place within a church. But before this phenomenon also peculiar mutations of style are observed. In the first registered appearances, between centuries X and XVII, the Virgin always appeared before adult people, and she did with the Boy in arms. Nevertheless, from the XIX it prefers the children and it does in his modern version of Immaculate, that is to say, like youngster dressed target in a celestial blue mantle and without the Boy who - we do not forget it is the central figure of the Christian religion.

To what east change obeys? Perhaps to that all the modern appearances copy to those of Lourdes and Fátima, that are those that admits the own Church. Thus, the three children of Lourdes clonan themselves in the three pastorcillos of Fátima, the four children of the village of Garabandal and, by all means, also in both young of Ezkioga, the Bereziartúa brothers, of six and eleven years respectively.

Of the Virgin with the Boy who appears to the adults, we have happened to the virgin who pronounce themselves before the same children, always in the absence of adults. The children represent a universal archetype of innocence. But, also, we know that its mind is very easy to manipulate. On the other hand, also we know that the brain secretes endorfinas able to produce hallucinatory mental images. The people who experience prolonged fastings and mystical tendencies are very inclined to these phenomena that French psychologist Michel Senlis defines as visual sensations whose appearance does not depend on the will of the subject. Its physical plasticity is like the visionary is persuaded that what is seeing is real. From there, the spreading of the miracle generates the same process in other people, which explains the epidemic character of some appearances.

In the years that followed the vision of Lourdes, in France an authentic psychosis was lived on appearances. But the same in the Ukraine happened after the tragedy of Chernobyl, in 1987, and three years before in Medjugorje, old Yugoslavia.

Science always has been very critical before these phenomena. But, to tell the truth, the Church it has not been less. The devil's advocate would say that he is right his. For the high hierarchies he must be very difficult to accept that pastorcillo ignorant disputes the monopoly to them of the supernatural thing. Immediately, when that Lady who speaks to the children congregates multitudes, he comes himself to his catolización. However, he says what the Pope in Lourdes says, the origin of that flowing one counts another history. He speaks us of a profane Virgin who speaks by itself to humblest, without needing intermediaries, always moved away of the ordenancista divinity that administers the own Church.