Paranormal record / 1945
Sunday, 27 May 1945. A country road outside La Codosera, near the Portuguese border. Ten-year-old Marcelina Barroso Expósito saw a dark form above a chestnut tree. Slowly it took shape. A Lady in a black mantle covered with stars, hands joined, floating above the ground. Eight days later more than a thousand people came to watch. Marcelina crossed thorns and sharp stones on her knees and rose without a wound. A teenager, Afra Brígido Blanco, soon reported visions of her own. The crowd saw only a child in ecstasy. In 2024 the Vatican cleared the devotion at Chandavila, while expressing no certainty about its supernatural authenticity.
Spring 1945. La Codosera, a village in the province of Badajoz, close to the Portuguese border. Marcelina Barroso Expósito was ten years old, poor and fatherless. On Sunday 27 May she walked with her cousin, Agustina González, along the road to the hamlet of El Marco. Less than three kilometres out lay a spot called Chandavila.