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TO: The readers of the email version of the April 1998 Conyers Journal

The section "Wake Up America - Part 21" was inadvertantly left out of the
email version of the April 1998 Conyers Journal which I sent to you several
weeks ago.  I did not realize my mistake until I started formating the May
1998 Conyers Journal (I normally use the foramting for the header and
section titles from the previous month's Journal as a starting point for
the new Journal.)  I apologize for any inconvience I may have caused. I
think that it is important to read the messages in "Wake Up America - Part
21" along with the account of the Bolivian stigmatist who is a fruit of and
a witness for the authencity of the Conyers apparitions.

May the peace and love of God be with all of you,

Jack 

**************     Conyers Apparitions     **************
 Journal of Reported Teachings and Messages of Our Lord
     and Our Loving Mother at Conyers, Georgia, USA
        Compiled by Our Loving Mother's Children,
            P.O. Box 309, Conyers, GA. 30012
                    www.conyers.org
           Internet Email Edition - April 1998
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             "I HAVE CREATED MANY WITNESSES.
               LET THEM GO OUT AND SPEAK."
                            
                 Jesus - October 13, 1995

     Jesus has truly created many witnesses to speak about
the events and messages of Conyers.  Over the years many
pilgrims have shared their experiences at Conyers of
spiritual conversions and growth and many special graces
from God ranging from the unexplainable scent of roses to
rosaries turning a golden color, to the spinning sun, to
more profound physical, emotional and spiritual healings.
     Jesus has also created some special witnesses who have
experienced the same visions with Nancy.  Other special
witnesses are the doctors and scientists who have tested
Nancy and who were astonished at the scientifically
unexplainable results of the tests.  [See the June '93 and
July '94 Conyers Journals.]
     Jesus has also used a statue as a "witness".  As He
foretold to Nancy, Jesus left a sign in Cochabamba, Bolivia
in March of 1995.  A statue of Christ bearing the crown of
thorns, the Christ of Limpias, began to weep the day Nancy
departed from Bolivia.  Later the statue began to shed
blood which tested to be human blood.  After much study,
the Archbishop of Cochabamba declared the statue to be
worthy of veneration by the faithful.  [See the April '97,
May '97 and March '98 Conyers Journals.]
     The weeping and bleeding statue was not the only
witness that Jesus created in Cochabamba, Bolivia.


           THE BOLIVIAN STIGMATIST AND VISIONARY

     In October of 1993 during Nancy's second trip to
Bolivia, Catalina Rivas, a 47 year old, married woman,
experienced a spiritual conversion after hearing a talk by
Nancy.
     Afterwards Catalina began to receive messages from
Jesus through inner locutions.  Dr. Ricardo Castañon, the
Bolivian doctor who had organized the initial medical and
scientific testing of Nancy, was asked to investigate
Catalina's claims of mystical experiences.
     In his pleasant, Spanish accented English, Dr.
Castañon described his initial meeting with Catalina:

     "We had already studied some visionaries in other
countries.  Then a priest told me: 'There is a woman in
Cochabamba who says she receives messages from Jesus and
the Blessed Mother.  Can you study her?'
     "So I went to visit this lady.  I have to tell you
that I was a bit skeptical because she was married three
times and normally we have the idea that a woman who is in
this way is difficult to be a messenger of God ... 
     "I arrived at Cochabamba the 24th of June 1994.  I had
an interview with her for a long time, many hours.  I
didn't see that she was lying, but in my opinion, when I
study a person, I make something that we call depistage
which means that I use an instrument to measure the
electrical activity of the skin.
     "Using this instrument on the visionaries that I have
studied for the first time, I have monitored some
pulsations, say for example, 17 or 15 in one second.  That
shows me an electrical activity in her brain through the
skin.  And she had 15, 16, 17.  But when I saw an authentic
visionary, I said, 'can you pray please?'  And the
instrument went to 2, to 1 or to zero,  like with Nancy
Fowler or with Patricia Talbot ... it went to 2 or 4.  With
Nancy it disappeared, not any electrical activity, and it
is impossible for a person to do something like that
herself.
     "But with Catalina, nothing happened.  She was
praying, she was doing many things, many tests, and I
didn't have any reason to say, 'something extraordinary
happens with you.'
     "And I said to her, 'you have many nice messages, you
have written more or less one book.  But also a poet can
write so nice, a philosopher also.  
     "But she said, 'I have messages from Jesus.'  I said,
'Maybe you must be prudent, don't talk that you have
messages.  You can say you have inspirations, because
through the Holy Spirit, every Christian has inspiration.'
     "And she said, 'Okay'.  But I said something very
important ... I said, 'I don't think you are lying to me,
but to say that you have authentic experiences, I must have
some register in my instruments and I have nothing.  Then,
if it is from God what you have, and if He wants that
everybody know that you spread His messages, He must give
you a proof that we can test, that we can measure, that we
can see, and it must be repeatable.
     "Then if it doesn't happen, it is only for you, this
experience, and keep it for yourself."

              THE STIGMATA AND THE HOLY HILL

     After Dr Castanon's initial meeting,  Catalina came on
a pilgrimage to Conyers for the October 1994 anniversary
apparition.  Catalina, whose native language is Spanish and
who can understand very little English, later described in
Spanish her experience that October day on the Holy Hill in
Conyers as she knelt before the life-sized crucifix of
Christ.  The following is a translation of Catalina's
description:

     "I saw a light all around the Christ, a very strong
light.  And then I saw the necessity to offer my life to
the Lord, so that He could use it in whatever way He needed
to use it, to give Him thanks for all that He did for me.
     "Then I closed my eyes and I stayed praying and, when
I opened them, two very strong lights came out of the hands
of my Lord and I felt like a lightning bolt had gone
through my own hands.  I felt the strong pain, and then a
light came out of His feet, and it came to my own feet, the
light split in two to my two feet.  The third light came
out of His side, it went straight to my heart, and there I
fell to the ground because the pain was too strong.
     "The following Friday, when we were in Costa Rica, 
there the Lord told me: 'Enjoy the gift that I have given
you in Conyers because there are many people that ask Me
for this - to share the suffering of My Cross - and this I
reserve only for those that are capable to love Me as I
need to be loved.'
     "Then I asked Him, 'It [the stigmata] should not be
seen ever'.  And He told me:  'For now, no.  But, when I
think it is necessary, this can be seen by all. . .'

             THE MANIFESTATION OF THE STIGMATA

     In the months that followed the October 13, 1995
apparition, Nancy's life changed, becoming increasingly
more difficult.  During that apparition Jesus told Nancy,
"You will be returning to more solitary prayer.  I will be
drawing you unto My bosom.  Today your life takes a new
direction.  Through your writing, My messages will be
delivered to the world."  As Nancy entered a very difficult
phase in her life, Jesus was raising another public
witness, Catalina Rivas, to support Nancy by bearing
witness to the Conyers apparitions. 
     Dr. Castañon described what occurred next with
Catalina: 

     "It was the last week of January 1996, and Mr. Carlos
Canelas, a friend of Catalina, a friend of mine, called me
and he said, 'Ricardo, I think that the proof that you were
waiting for has arrived, come to the hospital.'
     "I went to the hospital ... and I saw this lady,
Catalina.  Eighteen months had passed since I had seen her. 
She now had some wounds in her hands, very deep.  The
doctor said that she had an ecchymosis.  She was hurt as if
someone could have hit her with something.
     "When I was there, she said, 'Now I have the proof,
something is happening with me.'
     "The doctors came.  All of them said that she was ill,
they didn't know how she made the wounds but all of them
were convinced that she could have made it with something
hard, like a hammer, or somebody could have done it to her. 
She had the wounds of the stigmata in the hands and in the
feet.
     "We saw that it was such a terrible wound.  We were
surprised.  I was worried, because she said that it comes
from Jesus.  I didn't know if it was but I was interested
in knowing how could it happen and what will happen
tomorrow.  And then she said, 'I suffer, but tomorrow I
will have nothing.'
     "That was for me very, very funny, because with such
a serious wound, how could you say that tomorrow you will
have nothing.  The doctors also said, 'it is impossible for
the wounds to disappear so suddenly, that you need at least
one month or maybe two months to heal.'
     "The next day was Saturday.  I went and she had
nothing, the wounds had healed.

            ADDITIONAL WITNESSES OBSERVE THE
              MANIFESTATION OF THE STIGMATA

     Dr. Castañon now began to now seriously study
Catalina's mystical experience.  He later described his
studies:

     "When I see someone like that, I say, 'What's going
on? This woman has such a power in her mind that she can
produce these things?'  But I am studying this phenomena
more or less 5 years in different countries, different
people, and I know that in many countries there are persons
who have stigmata, wounds similar to those that we say
Jesus had.
     "The 4th of July 1996, Catalina went from Cochabamba,
a city in Bolivia, to another city, where she had to give
a talk.  I saw her at 12:30.  We went to the restaurant to
have a meal.  She said she wanted to eat, she wanted a
soup.  She was very normal.  Everything clear and then she
said, 'I don't feel well'.
     "I asked, 'Catalina, what do you want?  You don't feel
well?'  And because she has had many, many of these
experiences in other moments, and it was Friday, First
Friday of the month,  I say, 'Are you going to have
stigmata?'.  'Yes,'  she said, 'Jesus asked me: Can you
help Me today?'   And then she told me, 'Yes, Jesus told me
I would have the stigmata.'
     "While she was talking, I saw some points, small
wounds on her forehead with a little bit of blood.  Then we
knew that she was not feeling so well, and she went to her
room.  Maybe 20 minutes later, from the front of her
forehead you could see some blood coming down, and the
hands began also to bleed, on both sides, and also the
feet, and she began to suffer a lot.  We have some video
shots of that ... and she suffers as a person who is dying,
because she has no air, she cannot breathe.  I saw the
process, the complete process of the manifestation of the
stigmata, especially that day, the 4th of July.  I was a
witness from the beginning to the end."

     Ron Tesoriero, the Australian lawyer and documentary
producer who has produced a series of books and videos on
the Conyers 
apparitions and related mystical events in Bolivia, has
produced a new video documentary, "For All Humanity",
containing impressive film footage of Catalina as she
experienced the stigmata.  Ron describes Catalina's
experience:

     "The footage we have obtained of her experience of the
visible stigmata is most impressive.  The video footage and
the testimonies of witnesses we recorded, reveal that on
certain Fridays at 12.30, from nothing, certain open wounds
begin to appear, become progressively severe, and to bleed. 
These wounds appear on the front and back of both hands,
and on the top and bottom of both feet, and on her side,
and at certain points around her forehead.  These wounds
seemingly reflect visually what is believed to have been
the injuries inflicted on Christ during His crucifixion.
     "Throughout this experience, which lasts between 12:30
and 3:00 p.m., Catalina is seen and heard to experience the
pain and agony which might be expected of a person with the
severe injuries that can be seen on her body. 
Mysteriously, the experience ends at 3.00 pm and the
injuries, which a doctor present at the time says should
take six to eight weeks to heal, vanished by the next day."

     It was after seeing a sign like he wanted, the
dramatic appearance and disappearance of Catalina's
stigmata, that Dr. Castañon began to study closely
Catalina's numerous messages.  He later commented upon
these messages:

     "Well, this lady didn't finish high school, and she
has written eight books, big books ...  In two weeks, after
the stigmata first appeared in her flesh in early January
of 1996, she has written  about 900 handwritten pages.  The
content of the messages talks about theology, human life,
divine spirituality . . . there is no theological mistake,
and the priests have read them, especially Salesian and
Jesuit priests and they didn't find any mistake.
     "She says Jesus will dictate to her and she gets a
tachycardia, which means that the heart begins to beat very
fast.  And she says, 'always when Jesus tells me something
I have this feeling.'  I have touched her heart in this
moment, and really she has tachycardia.  And she begins to
write.  I see that she does not stop, she writes
continuously all the time.  She has not the moment to stop
and think about it.  If you write a letter to your friend,
you take your time and sometimes you stop.   She doesn't,
she writes continuously, all the time.  
     "And the Spanish she uses is very elegant.  I have
read now more than 25,000 messages from visionaries all
over the world, but no one has this beauty that I see in
these books.
     "We wanted to study her, to see her stigmata, to study
more about her behavior.  We have done it, but when we
wanted to go deeper, taking some blood samples of her
stigmata, but the Bishop said, 'What more proof do you
want?  What else do you want?  You have eight books ... I
know theology and everything that she has written is
perfect."

     Ron Tesoriero describes the impact of Catalina's
messages on her Archbishop: 

     "The Bishop of the city, Bishop Fernandez, has
expressly acknowledged Catalina's genuineness.  The Bishop
believes that what Catalina has written during her
experiences is beyond the ability of her, or indeed any
human being, to write.  He believes that the messages
contain such poetry and historically anthropologically and
theologically accurate content that could only have come
from God.
     "This would seem to be one of the rare cases in modern
times where a Bishop has acknowledged the authenticity of
a visionary's supernatural experiences and regarded the
messages to be of such significant content that they are
worthy of dissemination to the hierarchy of the Church."

     Ron Tesoriero further describes the impact in South
America of Catalina's messages:

     "This spiritual revival now spreading from Bolivia
comes thanks to the humility and wisdom of a bishop and a
nation deeply moved by a sequence of extraordinary
happenings.  It is a spiritual revival powered by the
feeling of a meaningful presence of Christ as seen in the
tears that were mysteriously shed from Christ's crucified
image and in all that is happening to Nancy and Catalina."

               THE WARNINGS OF A GREAT WAR

     What is particularly interesting, is the coincidental
nature of a message that Nancy received in Conyers on
October 13, 1997, and a message received by Catalina on
October 14, 1997 in South America.  Catalina has said that
the message she received was given to her to confirm the
message that was given to Nancy the day before.
     On October 13, 1997 after the Blessed Mother reminded
the world of the requests she made at Fatima, 80 years
before to the day, she said to Nancy:

        "Please, children, you must not offend God
     any longer.  I come with a serious warning.  A
     great war will come upon this world, greater than
     man has ever known.
        "Pray, children, pray.  Amend your ways. 
     Please.  I invite you to pray the Rosary for
     peace."

     Catalina was unaware of the above Conyers message when
on October 14, 1997, Jesus gave her, as part of a larger
message, the following words (translated from Spanish):

        "My little Daughter, ask Dr. Ricardo to get
     the message of Conyers.   Very bitter times are
     awaiting humanity with a war as never was and
     never will be again.  If man does not respond
     very soon and come back to God he will receive
     something more terrible than he can imagine."


               THE ARCHBISHOP'S IMPRIMATUR
                            
     On April 2, 1998 Archbishop Fernández gave the
following Imprimatur to the eight books with Catalina's
messages:


                       IMPRIMATUR:

     We have read Catalina's books and we are sure that
their only objective is to guide us all on a journey of
authentic spirituality, founded on the Gospel of Christ.
The books likewise highlight the special place occupied by
the Blessed Virgin Mary, our role model in loving and
following Jesus Christ, our Mother to whom we should offer
our complete trust and love.
     In renewing the love and devotion to the Holy Catholic
Church, the books enlighten us on the actions that should
characterize a truly committed Christian.
     For all this, I authorize their edition and
distribution, and recommend them as texts of meditation and
spiritual orientation, with the purpose of answering Our
Lord's calling to save many souls, showing them that He is
a living God, full of love and mercy.

+ Mons. Rene Fernandez Apaza
Archbishop of Cochabamba
April 2, l998


     Many of Catalina's messages for which the Archbishop
has given his Imprimatur are now available in Spanish on
the Internet World Wide Web at:    www.grancruzada.org 
     The Web site includes further background information
in both Spanish and English as well as English translations
of the messages as they are completed..
     An excellent overview of the scientific and medical
studies concerning the Conyers apparitions and the related
events in Bolivia, including some actual footage of
Catalina experiencing the stigmata, are available in the
new documentary "For All Humanity" produced by Ron
Tesoriero.  Information on this video follows the next
section, "AMERICA, WAKE UP BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.".

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                   "AMERICA, WAKE UP
                 BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE." 

                       Part 21
     Let us read the messages which follow in light of the
warnings of a great war that both Nancy and Catalina
received in October of 1997.  This chronological series of
Conyers messages began in the February 1996 Journal.  It is
interesting to note that the messages which follow
immediately preceded Nancy's trip to Bolivia in October
1993 which led to Catalina's conversion experience.

                       July 23, 1993
     Nancy heard Jesus say, "There will be more flooding. 
My children are not listening.  There will be more violent
storms."

             "PRAY AND SACRIFICE FOR PEACE." 
                       July 27, 1993
     Jesus said, "Please do not disregard the sign I have
given you this evening.  The Chinese man will appear to
you.
     "There is a hidden meaning as to why the Chinese man
appeared to you.  Satan and this Chinese man are linked. 
Satan is the hidden one behind this Chinese man." 
     Nancy questioned why there is a hidden agenda.  Nancy
said, "He tells me several times and the words leave my
mind." 
     "Echo My words: My children all over the world, pray
and sacrifice for peace.
     "You do not understand the hidden agenda that awaits
you.  Again I say: Do not disregard My words.  Pray and
sacrifice for peace." 
     Nancy saw blood or some heavy substance come down the
face of Jesus.
     "Look up the word reparation and please explain this
to My children.
     "In order to help you, My dear children, understand
what My Mother is asking of each of you."

                      August 24, 1993
     Nancy saw a vision of a large sickle many miles in
length in the sky.  The sickle was blood red.  She also saw
two large, blood red streaks coming down from the sickle. 
The streaks angled to the side as they came down.  Around
the sickle were seven elongated, oval objects which fell
out of the sky at great speed.

             "CHINA, RUSSIA AND KOREA WILL BE
                INVOLVED IN A MAJOR WAR." 
                      August 25, 1993
     Jesus said, "Fire will fall from Heaven.  Man will
bring this about in this decade.  Woe to this sinful
generation." 
     Later Jesus said, "China, Russia and Korea will be
involved in a major war." 

                      August 27, 1993
     In church Nancy saw the face of Jesus come out of the
monstrance at the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.  All
around the monstrance there was mystical light.  Then in a
vision Nancy saw one face after another of oriental looking
soldiers in combat looking uniforms with hard, military-
style helmets.  The soldiers had what appeared to be straps
over their shoulders.  Their eyes looked merciless.

       "KOREA, CHINA AND RUSSIA ARE A DEADLY TRIO." 
                     September 8, 1993
     After Mass Nancy was in church praying.  An angel
appeared, kneeling and facing the tabernacle on the wall to
the side of the altar.
     Jesus said, "Korea, China and Russia are a deadly
trio."  As Nancy wrote these words, an angel appeared on
the paper.

             "THIS IS AN URGENT PLEA FROM ME:
                     COME BACK TO ME" 
                    September 10, 1993
     Jesus said, "My children do not know the reality of My
Kingdom.  Tell them.
     "It is better that the conversion of hearts will take
place now.  The day will come when My children will be sad
that they are not close to Me.
     "When you are spiritually mature you are close to Me. 
You will be joyful and at peace no matter what is being
asked of you.
     "The problem is My children are not ready and many
will fall in the wicked one's hands.  Learn how to fight
the evil one by staying close to Me.
     "My children will loose their riches and their health
will deteriorate.  The very soil they walk on will become
unplentiful for long periods of time.  The water they drink
will become polluted.  The atmosphere about them will be
filled with radiation.  There will be terrible skin
diseases.  The plague of cancer will increase.  Emotional
illnesses of every kind will stifle My children and cities
of sin will become unbearable.  My children will be
terrified by the signs that are around them and the faith
of all My children will be greatly tested to the point of
almost breaking human endurance.
     "It is a grace that I give you now to come back to Me
in love.
     "Do not think a terrible war will not come, because
men plot it within their hearts." 
     Nancy said, "Jesus, this sounds so very hopeless." 
     Jesus said, "This is an urgent plea from Me: Come back
to Me.  Come one; come all.
     "I am the giver of all hope.  I am the giver of life.
     "My children, you are allowing Satan to divide you. 
You are permitting evil to enter in envy and in greed, in
jealousy, in unforgiveness, in impurities of every kind,
with murders and adultery, with stealing and lying,
coveting your neighbor's goods, coveting your neighbor's
wife.  You have accepted these sins and you no longer call
them sins.
     "You worship false gods.  You proclaim yourself as
god.  You proclaim yourself as all knowing.  I say: wake up
before it is too late to amend your life.
     "Each of you, My dear children, each one of you I will
call by name and you will stand before Me.  Please permit
My Mother to help you.  Please seek the forgiveness of My
Heart.  Please!" 
     Nancy gasped as she saw in a vision much suffering
reflected upon the face of Jesus.
     Jesus then said, "Thank you."

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scientifically inexplicable happenings in both North
America and South America are examined in this documentary.
The questions it raises for science and religion could have
important implications for all humanity.

     * A statue of Christ mysteriously weeps and bleeds
       in Cochabama, Bolivia
 
     * In the same city, a theologically-uneducated woman,
     who bears the wounds of Christ's Crucifixion,
     writes in a continuous fashion, profound theological
     teachings, which she says are dictated to her by
     Christ. 

     * Another women, in North America, claims that Christ
     and the Virgin Mary are appearing to her and giving
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                         PETITIONS
     Prayer petitions can either be sent by e-mail or
U.S. mail for placement in the room where the Blessed
Mother appears at the Conyers apparition site.  The
e-mail address is "petitions4heaven@mindspring.com" and
the U.S. Mail address is: Our Loving Mother's Children,
P.O. Box 309, Conyers, GA 30012.

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