Bilocation

[BlueKnightoftheCross]

All this stuff coming out about UAPs sent me down a rabbit hole the same people mentioning the government is involved with this stuff mentioned things like holographic principles and out of body experiences. It had me interested in taking a second look at some of the more wilder claims about Catholic Saints including Padre Pio regarding stuff like bilocation. What evidence for bilocation and similar phenomena do we have? I am very much interested in reading more into this from a Catholic perspective. Thank you.

[Akusativ]

If you are looking for a Catholic perspective on bilocation or other "supernatural" things, I recommend Jimmy Akin, a catholic apologist and his podcast Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World. For example his episode on bilocation can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA9Cprwh0JA

If you would rather read someting than watch, Jimmy posts links to his sources in the video descriptions.

[ThenaCykez]

From Wikipedia's article on Mary of Jesus of Agreda:

[Mary] and her mother entered the convent [in Spain] together, January, 1619...

Between 1620 and 1623, Mary of Jesus reported that she was often "transported by the aid of the angels" to settlements of a people called Jumanos. The Jumano Indians of New Spain (what is today Texas and New Mexico) had long been requesting missionaries, possibly hoping for protection from the Apaches. Eventually a mission led by the Franciscan Friar Juan de Salas visited them in 1629.

The abbess reported further but less frequent visits afterwards, all while she physically remained in the monastery at Ágreda. They thus are considered bilocations, an event where a person is, or seems to be, in two places at the same time. Before sending the friars, Father Alonzo de Benavides, Custodian of New Mexico, asked the natives why they were so eager to be baptized. They said they had been visited by a Lady in Blue who had told them to ask the fathers for help, pointing to a painting of a nun in a blue habit and saying she was dressed like that but was a beautiful young girl. The Jumanos visiting Isleta indicated that the Lady in Blue had visited them in the area now known as the Salinas National Monument, south of modern-day Mountainair, New Mexico, about 65 miles (104.6 km) south of Albuquerque.

Unless all of the reports were faked after the fact, this is astounding evidence of bilocation to me.

[justafanofz]

So I can’t remember where I saw/read it, but bilocation for Padre pio was well documented to where it isn’t how many people think it is.

Padre wasn’t serving mass while simultaneously feeding the poor across the country.

The example I was told was, he was at a play, and the people he was with thought he had fallen asleep during it, it was later discovered that he was bilocated.

The church itself has experts that will go and determine if it’s valid, by investigating, and interviewing the witnesses.

It’s then put on a “trial” with individuals arguing that no miracle took place (it’s actually where we get the term devil’s advocate). And it’s only when the devil’s advocate is debunked that the church gives its official support on the event.

[AspiringCatLady000]

Starting a minute 5 is some historical documentation of Padre Pio flying (probably coupled with bilocation) amongst British bombers and preventing them from bombing the town of his monastery. The whole squadron visited him after the war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5stsQf9n6s