July 18 thru 19 is the Anniversary of the alleged ‘Eucharistic Miracle of the Visible Host’ which suddenly appeared on the tongue of the visionary, Conchita Gonzalez. It occurred in the mountain village of San Sebastián de Garabandal (Cantabria), Spain between the late night until the early morning hours of July 18-19, 1962.
After being repeatedly asked by the children for a ‘miracle’ so that people might believe, the Archangel Michael finally consented and told visionary Conchita Gonzalez that on July 18, 1962, the invisible Holy Communion that he had been giving to her [and the other seers] would on that day, become visible on her tongue. She was to announce it fifteen (15) days in advance.
Then about 1:30 in the early morning of July 19, Conchita left her house in ecstasy, turned a corner, and fell to her knees in a street adjacent to her house. A short time later Conchita put her tongue out.
Suddenly, faster than the human eye could detect, a bright white Host appeared on Conchita’s tongue.
An entrepreneur from Barcelona filmed everything with a borrowed camera and with the help of a light torch managed to take some small frames of the film, in which it showed the tongue of Conchita with the small wafer. At the same time there was also another person, Dr. Jacques Caux, who, with his professional film machine, waited anxiously for this moment. However, at the moment the host appeared, it could not record anything, remaining motionless in the face of such an event. According to him, that moment was the turning point in his life.
The people who attended all this, were astonished by this phenomenon and they believed in the apparitions of Our Lady. “The miracle, the miracle, the miracle,” were the words that the multitude spoke in a single voice when they saw the Host appearing on Conchita’s tongue, which had a bright light and was shining and with some thickness. The Host was visible in Conchita’s tongue about 2 minutes. It was 1:40 A.M. on the 19th of July, 1962.