Private revelation

A private revelation is the name of the Roman Catholic Church for a revelation of Christ, Mary, or an angel to a man as an individual, as for the faithful suggested, although it is may not be defined without meaning.

Ecclesiastical recognition

In the Roman Catholic Church, a private revelation to be " recognized ", but this only means that their content after nothing was found in terms of a nihil obstat what the Holy Scripture, the Church's Tradition and the Magisterium of the Church - according to the Catholic understanding of the three sources of religious truth - is contrary. It is thus not taken any statement as to whether the particular private revelation is indeed of supernatural origin, but this remains the faith of individuals left.

On 24 February 1978, the Vatican's doctrinal congregation laid down standards for the church's assessment of private revelations.

Apparitions, Visions, embassies

Seen in number to find the most recent private revelations since the 18th century as part of Marian apparitions take place, such as in Lourdes, La Salette, Fatima or Mary of Agreda.

Not Marian private revelation, which often angel or unspecified voices act as the seer accompanying or visions explanatory protagonists, some of which are identified with Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit or to a particular saint, can be found in the experiences and reports of many mystics and visionaries such as Hildegard of Bingen, Angela of Foligno, Joan of Arc, Teresa of Ávila, Anna Katharina Emmerich and Therese Neumann. Since the theological concept of private revelation is of recent origin and was distinguished in the Middle Ages not conceptually between "official " ( ecclesiastical or biblical ) and " private" revelation, those older mystical exercises are brought rarely using the term in conjunction, although the experiences do not seem to differ fundamentally. They fall into the Church's rating as well under this definition.

Certain difficulties for the question of the liability of the belief in the authenticity of "private" revelations or messages arise when the relevant seer or media have been confirmed by the Church by canonization and applicable to teachers of the church, bringing the lore to such saints a quasi " receive official " character. However, the Catholics demanded by faith in the rightness of ecclesiastical decision refers to the basic judgment of the person and their holiness, but not all the details of their mystical or supernatural insights, miracles, teachings or private messages.