Berthe Petit visions

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Hi everyone…Im trying to determine if Berthes visions were ever approved…and if not approved, is it ok to read about them/believe in them…

I cant find anything saying they have been approved but Ive seen statements implying she or her work was given the imprimatur?

Thanks for any feedback!
 
Per Miracle Hunter (an excellent resource:)

Approved: Cause for Beatification Opened, Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat awarded to messages, Promoted by Cardinals Mercier of Belgium and Bourne of England

http://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/approved_apparitions/faith-expression.html
Just to clarify, this is “Approved for Faith Expression”.

It means you can read the apparitions and do devotions connected to them. For example, have a shrine on the apparition site, say Mass there, say a prayer allegedly revealed to the visionary, etc.

It doesn’t mean the Church has approved the material in the private revelations as being supernatural/ worthy of belief. For that, you would have to have at least “Bishop Approval” which is the next level of approval.

If the person is up for beatification, then when she is beatified, and assuming there’s no situation where her revelations are specifically excluded or said to be written by someone else (like the situation with Blessed Anne Emmerich), then her revelations would be considered “approved” at that point.
 
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It’s not a case of “better approval”. There’s a process that needs to be followed in order to have a bishop-approved or Vatican-approved apparition.

Of the two cardinals, one is from England and has no jurisdiction to be approving the visions of a visionary who was in Brussels. That would have to come from the Archbishop or Cardinal in charge of Belgium. The English cardinal can promote devotion associated with this person’s visions in his own diocese. That’s all he can do.

Turning to the other Cardinal who did have jurisdiction over Brussels, he apparently knew or at least received messages from the visionary during her life, but he died 20 years before she did and doesn’t appear to have issued a decision on her actual visions. None of the later Archbishops who had jurisdiction over Brussels have granted a formal approval to the visions themselves, which would mean saying that a supernatural event occurred and the visions are worthy of belief. It’s not even clear from what’s on the Miracle Hunter website whether they did a full investigation.

One problem I can see with getting approval for the visions is that Berthe Petit claimed to have received revelations from Jesus Christ. Apparitions or locutions of Jesus (apart from him being a baby in Mary’s or Joseph’s arms) are held to a really high standard for approval. The Church has only ever formally approved two apparitions of Jesus (the Sacred Heart revelations to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and the Divine Mercy revelations to St. Faustina Kowalska). So the odds are very much against these visions getting a bishop approval or a Vatican approval. But one can still read the visions and pray the prayers, and also support Berthe’s cause for beatification.
 
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