The Message of Mary Co-redemptrix at Akita and Proposed Marian Dogma by Fr. Thomas Teiji Yasuda, S.V.D.

The Message of Mary Co-redemptrix at Akita and Proposed Marian Dogma by Fr. Thomas Teiji Yasuda, S.V.D.

On April 22, 1984, Bishop John Shojiro Ito, the local ordinary of the diocese where the Marian apparitions took place, issued a pastoral letter in which he authorized the veneration of the Holy Mother of Akita. In the pastoral letter, Bishop Ito declared the supernatural authenticity of three Marian messages, the messages of an angel and other mysterious events that have happened to a Japanese nun since 1973 at a convent in Akita, Northern Japan, a city that belongs to his diocese.

His successor as local ordinary, Bishop Francisco K. Sato, has continued his predecessor's authorization of the veneration of the Holy Mother of Akita. Thanks to these two diocesan bishops' authorization of this veneration, pilgrims from some fifty countries have trekked to the convent of the apparitions over the past twenty years and pilgrimages still continue today.

Here an important fact should be noted: Akita, Fatima and Lourdes all share one decisive Providential development—a local ordinary who declared the supernatural truthfulness of the Marian apparition, in the form of a pastoral letter. In Lourdes, Bishop Bertrand Laurence did so on January 18, 1862. In Fatima, Bishop Jose de Silva issued his pastoral letter on October 13, 1930. In Akita, Bishop Ito did so in 1984.

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