The Lady of All Nations appeared for Ida Peerdeman of Amsterdam. Peerdeman claimed to have received 56 visions of the Lady from 1945 to 1959. Ida Peerdeman was born on 13 August 1905 in the city of Alkmaar, Netherlands, the youngest of five children. She was an ordinary woman who worked as a secretary in Amsterdam. On 25 March 1945, Peerdeman reported seeing a woman surrounded in light who identified herself as The Lady.
The Lady of All Nations appeared for Ida Peerdeman of Amsterdam. Peerdeman claimed to have received 56 visions of the Lady from 1945 to 1959. Ida Peerdeman was born on 13 August 1905 in the city of Alkmaar, Netherlands, the youngest of five children. She was an ordinary woman who worked as a secretary in Amsterdam. On 25 March 1945, Peerdeman reported seeing a woman surrounded in light who identified herself as The Lady.
March 25, 1945
One of Ida’s sisters and Fr. Frehe, her spiritual director, were present at the first apparition which took place in her home. She was drawn to an adjacent room where she recounts: “I see on my left some body standing over me in a long white garment, full of womanly grace. I understand her to be the Blessed Virgin. She lifts up three, then four, and finally five fingers while saying to me, The 3 stands for March, the 4 for April, and the 5 for May 5th.Then She shows me Her Rosary and says, This has saved you. Persevere to the end’ After a brief silence She adds, The prayer is to be made known everywhere.
“Then in front of me I see nothing but soldiers, many of them Allies and the Blessed Virgin is pointing to them. She takes the crucifix of the Rosary in Her hand and points at it and then again to the soldiers.
“I am given to understand that the Cross must become the support of the lives of those soldiers, for the voice continues, ‘ They will soon go home now, these here’, and she points to the troops.
I ask , Are you Mary?
She smiles and answers, They will call me “The Lady, Mother” The figure walks past me and I look at the palm of my hand. A Cross is being laid down before me and I have to take it up. I do so very slowly; it is heavy. All at once everything is gone.”
April 21, 1945
Suddenly I am placed in a church. Then I say, “I am standing in front of a special altar and see the image of the Lady.” It is a portrayal of the Lady, the way I saw her the first time. It is in the midst of flowers; even on the altar steps I see an incredible amount of flowers. Thousands of people are kneeling before it.
The image looks at me and waves her finger to and fro in warning.