Lady of all Nations
| The Lady of all Nations The Mother of All Nations |
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The painting representing Our Lady of all Nations, with the original Dutch title.
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| Location | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Type | Marian apparition |
| Holy See approval | Msgr. Jozef Marianus Punt, Bishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam |
| Shrine | Sanctuary of The Lady of All Nations, Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
| Patronage | Undeclared |
The Lady of all Nations is a Catholic title used for the Blessed Virgin Mary in a series of Marian apparitions, known as the Amsterdam Apparitions, to Ida Peerdeman in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Peerdeman allegedly received a total of 207 visions, the first 56 of which involved the Virgin Mary and began on 25 March 1945. After the Marian visions ceased on 31 May 1959, Peerdeman claimed to have received 151 of what she called “Eucharistic Experiences” for 26 years, where she was given divine revelation, usually during Mass.
Ida Peerdeman was born on 13 August 1905 in the city of Alkmaar, in the Netherlands. The youngest of five siblings, she was an average woman who worked in a perfume factory. The first of 56 purported apparitions is said to have occurred in March 1945. Ida claimed that she had seen the Virgin Mary as she was huddled by a stove with her sisters and a family friend, Father Frehe, chatting about the war and the possibilities of the future. Ida recalled seeing a light from the corner of the room. From it came a woman who revealed herself as the “Lady of All Nations", and instructed her to repeat everything she was told. Fr. Frehe directed her sister to write down every word.
The first 25 messages, between 1945 and 1950 are typical apocalyptically phrased warnings against communism, atheism, and modernity. Shortly after the promulgation in 1950 of the dogma of the Assumption of Mary, the messages changed. The Virgin requested an image of her be made. The painting was produced in 1951 by German artist Heinrich Repke at the direction of the visionary.
Peerdeman died in 1996.
Followers of Our Lady of all Nations maintain that Our Lady asked for a fifth and final Marian dogma of the Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate, and cite four dogmas that have preceded it: The Immaculate Conception, the Perpetual Virginity, the Mother of God, and the Assumption.
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