After a series of discussions and  , the Roman Catholic Church recognized the apparitions of the Virgin Mary did appear to a young girl in the mid-1600s. Mary, Jesus’s mother, was highly respected among the Catholics, who even take their prayer requests to her instead of Jesus.

In the Bible there was one man who was called back to earth by a medium. Saul was the man asking a spiritist to call up Samuel for him. As Samuel returned, he told Saul what would happen to him. Saul lay stretched out on the ground, terrified by what Samuel had said.

Did Mary’s apparition appear to that teen-aged girl? As the Bible tells us, do not believe every spirit, but put the spirits to the test to see if they are from God or others (1 John 4:1).