The Vatican continues to make progress in wading through its backlog of requests for rulings on alleged Marian apparitions and other spiritual phenomena.
At the beginning of August, the Vatican issued two more rulings, approving devotion at the very popular Marian shrine of Our Lady of Good Health in Vailankanni, India, while offering a clear word of caution on devotion surrounding a Puerto Rican laywoman named Elenita de Jesús.
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) published a letter to Bishop-elect Sagayaraj Thamburaj of Tanjore Diocese in India issuing a nulla osta to devotion at the Vailankanni Marian shrine, which is Asia’s biggest Marian shrine and is visited by millions of pilgrims annually.
