The news spread among traditional Catholics of the whole world. New bishops were almost everywhere – in Spain, Ireland, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, United States, Columbia, Brasil, Argentina, Nigeria – endeavouring after spiritual needs of people, who did not feel well with the new Mass.

And, what it the most important, Gregorio XVII really knew what to say to catch attention of traditional Catholics. In his first document he condemned Novus Ordo Missae and re-affirmed the teaching of Trent. In the second one he proclaimed a new dogma – Mary mediatrix and Mary co-redemptrix.

By the end of 1978 the long awaited consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was done, he forbade concelebration, made cassock obligatory as well as reminded that Latin is the official language of the true Church. He excommunicated communists, masons, said few strong sentences against birth control, made a lot of new saints – including saint Francisco Franco and saint Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, announced that civil War in Spain 1936-39 should be titled 'Holy Crusade’. Who wouldn’t agree with that?

People who then heard about 'true pope’ who lives in hidden somewhere on a desert in Spain hadn’t have any knowledge about diabolical roots of the apparitions. That’s how he managed to 'catch’ a lot of great people, especially elderly priests and nuns: rev. James Williams from the White Fathers, rev. Wiliam Daly, rev. Olan Healey, rev. Andrzej Dabrowski (a Pole ordained a priest in 1945) and many others.

What were their reasons for joining palmarians Church? Let’s look closer on few cases from biografical sketches published by the Santa Sede Apostolica Sevilla:

’Sister Mary Teresa of the Holy Face and Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal – know as Frances Bernadette O’Malley (…) her father died (…) leaving the family in extreme poverty (…) in 1959 she offered herself to the Legion of Mary and was sent to Germany with another young lady to work in order to counteract Communists and atheists among the workers and spread the devotion to the Most Holy Virgin Mary (…) this time they sent her to Sweden, a country well known for its depraved morals (…) she founded many Legion of Mary cenacles in all partes of Sweden (…) in 1972 she was forces to abandon her apostolat in Sweden because of bishop, now progressivist, ordered her to remove the name of Mary from the Legion of Mary’. Few years later palmarians gave her 'explanation’ of such a terrible situation.

’Sister Mary Julie of the Holy Face and the Immaculate Heart of Mary – know as Theresa Himmeler in the world (…) on the 4th of April 1935 she left for Vienna and entered in the Order of Poor Schoolteacher Sisters of Our Dear Lady (…) as from 1963 she began to feel uncomfortable in her own order, for her soul was unable to accept such destructive changes (…) she had to fight hard in her convent to receive Holy Communion kneeling and combat other progressivist innovations also’. But she wasn’t strong enough and left her convent in November 1978.

Few days later she entered Carmelite Order of the Holy Face.

Sister Mary Julie and sister Mary Teresa are two examples from hundreds – examples of sensible and sensitive Catholics, lay or living consecrated life, who were caught be palmarians, because of odd things done and said by their 'conciliar’ superiors.

5/ The dogmatic fruits of Palmar de Troya

During years 1975-79 thousands of people, mostly from Spain and Ireland, converted to the Palmar de Troya 'Church’.

Then the blow came. Since 1980 ’pope Gregorio’ has started to change everything what is important in the religious life – rites of sacraments and teaching of the Church. He deprived them from the sacraments, but kept strict moral rules and from the exaggerated catholic principle of allegiance to superiors made an instrument of brainwashing.

In 1980 ’pope Gregorio’ introduced ’palmarian rite’ of Mass, which includes almost only the Consecration. During next few years he changed all rites. New ones are probably invalid.

We should also carefully examine so-called ’Palmarian Catechism’. The catechism teaches that in the Holy Mass are two sacrifices – the Christ’s one and the Mary’s one. ’Pope Gregorio’ says also that the Mary’s body and blood are present in the Holy Communion and that we receive a bit of her blood during Baptism. He thinks that somewhere in the Space there is a place kept away from the first human sin – he calls it the Planet of Mary. On the other hand there is also a place where one can’t hope for salvation – the Planet of Antichrist.

Creatures, who live on the Planet of Antichrist come from the fourth dimension, and people who live in the Planet of Mary, including Eliash, Henoh, Moises and saint John, look at the Space from the eight dimension. During the Armageddon people from the Planet of Mary will come back on Earth to help us in the battle.

On the other hand we should remember that the ’Palmarian Catechism’ clearly reaffirms main evangelical principles, forgotten by so many modern ’neochristians’.

Probably the clearest comparison for American readers would be one with Veronica Lueken from Bayside. In both cases we can find an influence of science fiction, but it doesn’t mean that Lueken’s and Gomez’s followers stopped to be Christians.

6/ Moral state of palmarian leaders

That’s the most shadow and sad part of the story. Priests left theirs parishes and joined palmarians because they wanted to live modest, catholic life. And there they where… sexually abused by their 'pope’. Let’s allow one of bishops consecrated in Palmar de Troya, most rev. Geoffrey Francis Mayenne, to explain it:

’perhaps the worst fruit of the tree was homosexuality. (…) It was the cancer emanating from the three superiors. Instead of actually trying to kill it, they allowed it to grow; and furthered it! For many years the bogey was well hidden but in the lat 80’s it paraded in public. How in God’s name does the superior of a religious order, Clemente, ask someone to stay behind after lunch, and this was done in a public forum, for implied sexual purposes? In my own case, I was ill one evening in my room shortly before departing the community (in 1990 – R.N.). Suddenly the door was opened and the false prophet (Clemente Dominguez – R.N.) entered. He wanted to be accommodated sexually. I told him that I wasn’t that way inclined and with his tail between his legs he left the room. Shortly after that I left the community’.

When the problem started to be obvious among faithful, ’pope Gregorio’ decided to cut gossips, by… affirming in his sermons that they are true. For example on the 21 of January 2001 ’pope Gregorio’ had a vision of Our Lord Jesus Christ, who told him:

’– O My bellowed Vicar, that grace of chastity which you are working hard for, I will grant you in the near future, if you preserve, as a permanent grace; but beforehand you must undergo dreadful temptations, and thus obtain it at a higher price (…)
– Lord! No, not greater temptations than in the past. No, Lord, I cannot. Lord, I cannot. Lord, I cannot. I will fall. You know that I am weak. In chastity, Lord, You know that I am weak. Lord, for long years it has been a battle to be chaste, for years and years (…)
– Oh My beloved Vicar Gregory XVII, De Gloria Olivae, to gain so great a grace as confirmation in chastity, I shall permit Satan to tempt you as he never has up till now (…)’

It’s just a part of a supposed talk between Jesus and ’pope Gregorio’, which was published by Sancta Sede Apostolica Sevilla.

7. People who broke down with palmarians

Why faithful and bishops haven’t left the sect? There have been two main reasons. First of all ’pope Gregorio’ managed to convince them that he 'withdrew’ from bishops and priests outside his Church all powers to confer any Sacrament.

When faithful had come to him, he kept on answering – yes I’m a poor sinner, but also a pope and nowhere in the whole world You will find sacraments. What is more worthy? Here You have the grace of receiving Body of Christ, but You must be strong and accept that I’m just a sinner and I have some problems with my sexual life. Please pray for me. And it was said by a man who was a stigmatic for a long time and who made a lot of miracles. They simply believed him.

The second reason was that they had nowhere to go. Of course they always might be laicized in the Conciliar Church, as bp Maurice Revaz, bp Francis Coll, bp Manfred Zewell or bp Ciaran Broadberry were. The last one was contacted by me and said that ’the Holy Spirit works with Vatican’. But the most of them wanted to stay in the Holy Tradition. Among other traditional groups they had the worst opinion and nobody wanted to keep contact with them.

Anyway some of them managed to get out. Usually now they hide their past allegations with palmarians or at least don’t want to talk about it.

[1] First of all we should mention here a big group of faithful and at least few priests in France, whose leader is rev. Placide Marc, who lives in the Monastere de la Croix de la Borde. They recognize John Paul II as pope and use tridentine rite missal.

[2] Then there is rev. John Quinn, who is co-director of Tridentine Rite Conference in United States.

[3] Bishop Michel F. Main in 1987 was consecrated again, sub condicione, by George J. Musey, a sedevacantist from United States and he serves as a tridentine bishop in France.

[4] The same was did to bp Alfred Paul Seiwert-Fleige by most rev. Jean Roux in 1994.

[5] We also should mention bp Raymond Maurice Terrasson who, after breaking with Palmar de Troya, ordained considerable number of priests and bishops all around the world – including most rev. Timothy Hennebery, who was made a priest by famous bp Moises Carmona-Rivera.

Sedevacantist converts from palmarianism and their decedents can be found all around the world, including such a places like Gabon in Africa. Unfortunately some bishops apostaized after breaking with Palmar de Troya. The most famous example of it is so-called the Order Mater Dei run by bp Michael Patric O’Connor Cox well know from the fact that he made famous pop singer Sinead O’Connor a tridentine rite 'priest’.

8. Palmarian priests – how to evaluate them?

Palmarian Church practised double morality – one for pope Gregorio with rev. Isidore Mary, second for other priests and faithful, who lived very simple, severe, poor and modest life. But anyway: some of their supposed priests, have no power to celebrate mass.

A certain traditional bishops from France, supposes that all priestly ordinations in Palmar de Troya are invalid since Dominguez Gomez became blind as a result of an accident, what happened on the May 29, 1976. I don’t agree with it: we must note that in all the consecrations when bp Gomez was consecrator, there were also co-consecrators. Even in the last one which took place on the December 21, 2000. When John Anthony Sanchez Rofa, 81-years-old, was made a bishop, co-consecrators were bp Isidore Mary, bp Seraphim Mary and bp Charles Mary (a Pole). So I would say that all of his consecrations where valid in spite of his blindness to circa 1983-85 when they forbade tridentine rite in consecrations.

I think that palmarian ordinations should be divided on three groups:

[1] Those consecrated to 6th August of 1978 (proclaiming their own pope) they are valid but maybe schismatic – depending on the intentions in a specific case. But those of them who haven’t broke down with palmarians immediately after the false conclave became schismatics, even if a consecration itself hasn’t constitute the state schism.

[2] Consecrated from 1978 to circa 1983-85 – they were valid but for sure schimatic.

[3] All consecrations in the palmarian rite were probably invalid, however I cannot say it for sure, because there such an announcement must be made by a canonical authority.

9. The Summing up

[1] For sake of future faithful all palmarian priests should publicly abjure their errors, including schism and heresy. The exemption are bishops who broke down with them before 6th August of 1978. In the last case they shouldn’t be even called 'palmarians’ – they are Catholic bishops, consecrated in circumstances exactly the same as other Thuc or Lefebvre ones.

[2] Bishops and priests ordained in palmarian rite have to be re-ordanied sub conditione.

[3] They need help – first of all prayer and then the sacrament of penance including careful, but not offending, moral standard’s examination.

[4] We also must note that most of them lack deep theological knowledge, what does not invalid their priesthood, but might cause a big difficulty in serving as a priest.

We have to constantly pray in order to convert those poor people, what – from the reason of their ardent, however right know erroneous faith – might bring to Christianity great fruits.