Our Lady of Palmar

[4] Visionaries reported messages from the Virgin Mary, claiming she instructed people to pray the Our Father and the rosary, and for Catholics to return to worship in the Traditional form.

[4] On 15 October 1968 Clemente Domínguez y Gómez (a collector at the Compañía Sevillana de Electricidad) and Manuel Corral (a lawyer) visited the apparition site for the very first time.

[6] Domínguez y Gómez went on to claim that Pope Paul VI was innocent, and that he was a victim of supposed "Masonic infiltrators" in the Roman Curia, who were holding him hostage in the Vatican.

[4] On 18 May 1970 Cardinal José Bueno y Monreal, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seville formally denounced the apparitions as "collective and superstitious hysteria".

[4] On 30 November 1975 Domínguez y Gómez claimed to have a vision of the Virgin Mary and Christ announcing the foundation of a new religious order to reform the Church.

[4] The papal nuncio to Spain, Luigi Dadaglio, declared Archbishop Thuc, Domínguez y Gómez, and all Palmaranian bishops excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.