Perpetual Help
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
A map and prayers. Where she is venerated, what the Church has said about each place, and what people say they received.
What the app does
It gathers more than a thousand Marian shrines, icons and apparitions onto one map, each with its own entry: what happened there, when, and the judgement of the competent authority — the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith's 2024 Norms for proceeding in the discernment of alleged supernatural phenomena, where they apply.
It also carries the day's rosary mysteries, following the distribution of Rosarium Virginis Mariae, and a wall where those who were heard can say so. Nothing a person writes reaches the others until someone has read it first.
Public domain reproduction (Wikimedia Commons).
No sign-up
There is no account, password or email. Asking someone to register when they came to say their mother came through surgery is the wrong friction at the wrong moment. The app uses an anonymous identifier, created on first launch, so that you can correct and delete what you wrote — and for nothing else.
Seven languages
Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Dutch and Filipino. A testimony written in one language is translated on your device into the one you read, with «see original» always one tap away.
Content and devotion
The testimonies are personal accounts. They are not recognised apparitions and have not been assessed by the Church — the app says so on each one. The distinction between what the Church approved and what a person reports is kept on every screen, deliberately.
Contact
Questions, catalogue errors, deletion requests, abuse reports: louisperner@gmail.com. I answer them myself.