Teresita Castillo

Teresita Castillo y Lat (4 July 1927 – 16 November 2016) was a Filipina Catholic who said she had Marian visions. Castillo was a Discalced Carmelite postulant in the late 1940s but could not stay in the order due to the controversies surrounding the apparitions in Lipa, Batangas, Philippines, in the year 1948.

An initial investigation report in 1951 was signed by six Filipino bishops and declared the Lipa apparitions as "non-supernatural". Pope Pius XII in 1951 decreed her claims of apparition as both fraudulent and non-supernatural.

The apparitions were initially approved by the local bishop in 1951 but later condemned by the Vatican in the same year.

In 2015, then-Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles declared the apparitions as supernatural and worthy of belief, but the Vatican overruled his decision.

In 2016 the Vatican reiterated the judgement on the said apparitions as non-supernatural in character.

Since this has been established as "constat de non supernaturalitate" by the Holy See, the current local ordinary (bishop) can no longer rule on the authenticity of the said apparitions. CIC 333, cited in the 2015 Decree, indicates that this decision is no longer appealable. In 2016, the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith referred to the decision of Pope Pius XII as final.

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