Paranormal record / 1980
April 15, 1980. In the chapel of Cuapa, Nicaragua, the sacristan Bernardo Martínez saw the statue of the Virgin all illuminated. "The light was not coming out of anything, the light came from her." May 8. By a river in the afternoon, lightning flashed with no clouds in the sky. A second flash opened his vision. A very beautiful lady stood barefoot on a cloud, dressed in long white. She asked for the Rosary every day. She asked Nicaraguans to make peace. On October 13, about fifty people came with him. A luminous circle formed over the ground. Everyone saw it. In the first year of Sandinista rule, a farmer's visions became a national controversy.
In 1980 Cuapa was a valley settlement of about 100 rural houses in Chontales, under the municipality of Juigalpa. Nicaragua was in the first year of Sandinista rule. Bernardo Martínez had been born there on 29 August 1931. He was a farmer and a tailor. He was also the sacristan who looked after the chapel.