In June 1931, two months after the proclamation of the Second Republic in Spain, the Virgin appeared to two boys in Ezquioga, in the Basque Country. This event was succeeded by a spectacle of collective visions, trances and ecstasies that eventually congregated over 80,000 people in a single day. Among the prophecies was one that warned that in Spain there would be a war between Catholics and non-Catholics. In the build-up of this phenomenon, photography played a leading role.
