The apparitions of the Virgin Mary from 50 years ago still have a queue in Girona.

Fifty years ago, thousands of people gathered at the top of Girona's Archaeological Walk, near the Torre Gironella neighborhood, attracted by the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary. The media of the time gave extensive coverage to the phenomenon, which even made the front pages of sensationalist newspapers such as The CaseMaría Mesa, a woman of Andalusian origin with eight children, claimed to have a direct connection with divinity and would enter a kind of mystical ecstasy in which she supposedly received messages from beyond the grave. She quickly gathered followers, curious onlookers, and a few opportunists around her, many of whom nourished a Via Crucis that, on the 4th of each month, began to follow the so-called Way of the Crosses, made up of fourteen small chapels where the stations of the Via Crucis are represented. At the site of the apparitions, a chapel was eventually built, embedded in the rock, which has remained to this day. Even last Friday, April 4th, a dozen faithful made the Via Crucis accompanied by one of Mesa's daughters.

Fifty years ago, thousands of people gathered at the top of Girona's Archaeological Walk, near the Torre Gironella neighborhood, attracted by the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary. The media of the time gave extensive coverage to the phenomenon, which even made the front pages of sensationalist newspapers such as María Mesa, a woman of Andalusian origin with eight children, claimed to have a direct connection with divinity and would enter a kind of mystical ecstasy in which she supposedly received messages from beyond the grave. She quickly gathered followers, curious onlookers, and a few opportunists around her, many of whom nourished a Via Crucis that, on the 4th of each month, began to follow the so-called Way of the Crosses, made up of fourteen small chapels where the stations of the Via Crucis are represented.

At the site of the apparitions, a chapel was eventually built, embedded in the rock, which has remained to this day. Even last Friday, April 4th, a dozen faithful made the Via Crucis accompanied by one of Mesa's daughters..