Teresita Castillo

Castillo was a Discalced Carmelite postulant in the late 1940s but could not stay in the order due to the controversies surrounding the apparitions Lipa, Batangas, Philippines, in the year 1948.

Castillo celebrated her 21st birthday by "escaping" early in the morning at five from her father's house without permission to enter the Carmelite convent of Lipa.

[3] Castillo, in the reinvestigations of 1991 documents formally submitted to the Holy Office reconfirmed that she encountered the Devil and was heavily tortured under demonic affliction.

Meantime, the prioress, Mary Cecilia of Jesus, decided to consult Alfredo Obviar, auxiliary bishop of Lipa and spiritual director of Carmel.

The stress from the investigation resulted in long illness for Castillo, who eventually had to voluntarily leave the convent as she failed to complete the required length of stay for a novice.

On 22 January 1951, Auxiliary Bishop Obviar, the spiritual director of Carmel Lipa, was installed as Apostolic Administrator of the new Diocese of Lucena.

Verzosa's successor, the apostolic administrator Rufino Santos, ordered that no petals be given to anyone by the Lipa Carmelite community and the statue of Our Lady, Mediatrix be withdrawn from public view.

Though he had used his family's wealth to rebuild the churches and schools of war-torn Lipa, he was accused of mishandling the war reparations and finances of the diocese.

In January 2013 Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales, Archbishop Emeritus of Manila, opened the diocesan process of the cause of beatification and canonization of Verzosa.

[10] However, in May 2016, the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith under Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller overruled the archbishop and rejected his 2012 decree declaring that the apparitions in Batangas in 1948 were not authentic.