It is not easy to study the Palmarian church. Apart from the Palmarian written material, I have been in contact with a number of ex-members, who have helped me. In this list of sources and literature, you will be able to find the documents, books and articles which I refer to in my texts published on this website.
Official Palmarian Church Documents
Few Palmarian documents are available in research libraries (see http://www.worldcat.org). One exception is the library of the Centro Studi sulle Nuove Religioni (CESNUR) in Turin, Italy (www.cesnur.org), which has an impressive collection of Palmarian imprints: altogether 72 titles. Most of them are sermons from the 1990s and early 2000s, but they also hold copies of major works such as the Catechisms, the Palmarian Bible and the Treatise on the Mass. The great majority of the texts are in Spanish, but some are Italian versions.
In my articles published on my website I have referred to the following editions in Spanish, English, German and Portuguese that I have consulted. There are many other church publications and I try to find more. So if anyone would be able to provide me with documents or copies of such material I would be most grateful.
CESC = “Carta al Eminentísimo Señor Cardenal de Sevilla, Doctor José María Bueno y Monreal, enviada el 15 de abril de 1972, y suscripta por 342 peregrinos de El Palmar de Troya”. Printed in: Gerardo R. Alfaro, El Palmar de Troya: Mensajes sobrenaturales. Buenos Aires: Difusora Mariana Argentina, 1975.
CP = Credo palmariano. Printed in Documentos pontificios de su santidad el papa Gregorio XVII, vol. 1. Seville: Patriarcado del Palmar de Troya Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, 1980.
DH = “Datos históricos sobre hechos que precidieron a las primeras visionens y misiones apostólicos y misiones apostólicas del vdente de El Palmar de Troya, Clemente Domínguez Gómez”, [1974]. Printed in Gerardo R. Alfaro, El Palmar de Troya: Mensajes sobrenaturales. Buenos Aires: Difusora Mariana Argentina, 1975.
DP = Documentos pontificios de su santidad el papa Gregorio XVII, vol. 1. Seville: Patriarcado del Palmar de Troya Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, 1980.
DPA = Devocionário Palmariano: Corregido e aprovado por Sua Santidade o Papa Gregprio XVII, Sevilha, Abril 1996 Mês Santo Gregoriano Palmariano. Seville: Patriarcado del Palmar de Troya Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, 1996?
HP = ¡Habemus Papam! [1982]. Printed in: Su Santidad el Papa Gregorio XVII. Seville: Patriarcado del Palmar de Troya Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, 1999.
MC = Mensajes claves para entender la Obra del Palmar y Profecías antiguas sobre el Gran Papa Gregorio XVII. Seville: Patriarcado del Palmar de Troya Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, 1999.
MT = Mensajes Trascendentales dados por la Santísima Virgen María al vidente Clemente Domínguez y Gómez y luego Papa Gregorio XVII, Seville: Patriarcado del Palmar de Troya Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, 1997.
NP = Norms of Palmarian Christian Decency for Visiting the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Crowned Mother of Palmar, El Palmar de Troya: Patriarcado del Palmar de Troya Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, no year, but probably 2011, after the coronation of Gregory XVIII.
PD = Pontifical Documents of His Holiness Pope Gregory XVII. Seville: Patriarcado del Palmar de Troya Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, no year.
PKO = Palmarianischer Katechismus: Oberstufe, geleitet und approbiert vom heiligen Papst Gregor XVII, dem Grössten; auf den neuen Stand gebracht von Seiner Heiligkeit, Papst Petrus II; gegeben am Apostolischen Stuhl von El Palmar de Troya am 15. August, Fest der Himmelfahrt der Heiligen Jungfrau Maria, im Jahre MMV unseres Herrn Jesus Christus und im ersten Pontifikatsjahr des glüchlichenregierenden Papstes. El Palmar de Troya: Patriarcado del Palmar de Troya Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, 2005.
PR = “Prólogo” [Biography on Clemente Domínguez Gómez/Gregory XVII”]. Printed in Documentos pontificios de su santidad el papa Gregorio XVII, vol. 1. Seville: Patriarcado del Palmar de Troya Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, 1980.
SF = La Santa Faz de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo de los mensajes dados en El Palmar de Troya a Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, luego Papa Gregorio XVII. Seville: Patriarcado del Palmar de Troya Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, n.d.
SH = Sacred History or Holy Palmarian Bible: Superior Grade According to the Infallible Magisterium of the Church, 5 vols. Seville: Patriarcado del Palmar de Troya Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, 2001.
SHP = Short History of the Papacy in El Palmar de Troya, El Palmar de Troya: Patriarcado del Palmar de Troya Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, 2011.
TM = Tratado de la misa: Copioso fruto del Santo, Magno y Dogmático Concilio Palmariano 1980-1992 infaliablemente dirigido por Su Santidad el Papa Gregorio XVII, Ponífice Máximo. Seville: Patriarcado del Palmar de Troya Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, 1992?).
Gregory XVII, Apostolic decrees
Gregory XVII, Apostolic letters
Gregory XVII, Sermons
Peter II, Apostolic Letters Gregory XVIII, Encyclicals
Collections of Messages from Palmar de Troya (positive and critical)
Alfaro, Gerardo R. 1975. El Palmar de Troya: Mensajes sobrenaturales. Buenos Aires: Difusora Mariana Argentina, 1975.
Arana, Félix. 1977. ¿Traición en El Palmar? ¡Alerta!, n.p.
Isaías María de la Santa Faz, 1981. La gran señal apocalíptica y los graves sucesos actuales en el seno de la Iglesia Católica, 2nd ed., Asunción.
Luna, Padre. 1973. La mère de Dieu m’a souri: les apparitions de Palmar de Troya, Paris: Editions Latines.
Luna, Padre. 1976. El Palmar auténtico y el falso Palmar: Continuación de La Madre de Dios me ha sonreido, Zaragoza: n.p..
McKeown, S.M. 1970. Selected Messages of our Lord andOur Blessed Lady Given to Clemente Dominquez Gomez (Stigmatist) Seer of Palmar de Troya, Spain: Doctrinal Messages in Defence of the Holy Tradition and Magisterium of the Church, Palmar de Troya: S.M. McKeown.
Sánchez-Ventura y Pascual, Francisco. 1970. Las apariciones en el Palmar de Troya. Zaragoza: Editorial Círculo.
Selected messages at the Cruz Blanca (1980-2013) are available at http://www.cruzblancapalmar.es
Newspapers
ABC Seville edition
Andaluces.es
Diario de Avisos
Diario de Sevilla
El País
El Mundo
La Marea
Literature
Alonso, Javier & Rafael Canales. 1976. El Palmar de Troya: Festival del integrismo. Madrid: Sedmay Ediciones.
Barbara, Noël. [1993] 2006. “The Episcopal Consecrations Conferred by His Excellency Archbishop Peter-Martin Ngo Dinh Thuc.” Pp 65-81 in Kevin Vaillancourt, The Answers: A Summary of Objections to the Validity of the ‘Thuc Consecrations’ Accompanied by Numerous Answers that Have Been Given to these Objections. Spokane, WA: OLG Press.
Barrios, Manuel and María Teresa Garrido Conde. 1976. El apasionante misterio del Palmar de Troya. Barcelona: Planeta.
Beltrán y Bachero, José Carlos. 1989. “Unerlaubte bzw. ungültige Priester und Bischofsweihen in El Palmar de Troya.” Pp. 419-33 in Ius et historia: Festgabe für Rudolf Weigand zu seinem 60 Geburtstag. Würzburg: Echter.
Boyle, Terry J. 2007. “The Ngo Dinh Thuc Consecrations for Various Groups”. Accessed from http://www.terryboyle.net/Catholicism/Thuc_Consecrations.html on 12 August 2015.
Bromley, David G. and Rachel S. Bobbitt. 2011. “The Organizational Development of Marian Apparitional Movements.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 14:5-41.
Cadoret-Abeles, Anne. 1981. “Les apparitions du Palmar de Troya: Analyse antropologique d’un phénomène religieux.” Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez 17 : 369-78. Accessed from http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/casa_0076-230x_1981_num_17_1_2353 on12 August 2015
Callahan, William J. 2000. The Catholic Church in Spain 1875-1998. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America.
Catalá Rubio, Santiago. 2004. El derecho a la personalidad jurídica de las entidades religiosas. Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.
Cebolla López, Fermín. 1976. El vidente ciego: Cisma sin teólogos en El Palmar de Troya. Bilbao: Editorial CLA.
Cuneo, Michael W. 1997. The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Garrido Vázquez, Moisés. 2004. “El Palmar de Troya: 35 años de cisma.” Chapter 6 in El negocio de la Virgen, Madrid: Ediciones Nowtilus.
Garrido Vázquez, Moisés. 2008. “El Palmar de Troya: Cuatro décadas de integrismo mariano,” Misterios y fenómenos insólitos 84:4-12. Accessed from http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/Rev.%20Misterios,Marzo-2008.pdf on 12 August 2015
Gómez Burón, Joaquín and Antonio Martín Alonso 1976. El enigma de El Palmar de Troya, Barcelona: Editorial Personas.
González Sáenz, Juan Manuel. 2014. “El catolicismo tradicional español ante el ‘caso Lefebvre’ 1976-1978.” Hispania Sacra 66:489-513.
Hall, Maria. 2015. Reparation a Spiritual Journey. Haven Publishing.
Hierzenberger, Gottfried & Otto Nedomansky. 1996. Dizionario cronologico delle apparizioni della Madonna. Casale Monferrato: Piemme.
Introvigne, Massimo. 2004. “The Pope’s Question in Fringe Catholicism: A Note on ‘Sedevacantism’, ‘Sedeprivationism’, and ‘Antipopes’”. Accessed from http://www.cesnur.org/2004/mi_pope.htm on 12 August 2015.
Introvigne, Massimo. 2011. “Modern Catholic Millennialism”. Pp. 549-66 in Catherine Wessinger (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Millennialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Introvigne, Massimo & PierLuigi Zoccatelli. n.d. a. “Antipapi e pretendenti a un futuro ruolo di Papa”, in: I religioni in Italia. Accessed from http://www.cesnur.com/antipapi-e-pretendenti-a-un-futuro-ruolo-di-papa/ on 12 August 2015.
Introvigne, Massimo & PierLuigo Zoccatelli. n.d. b. “Tradizionalisti e sedevacantisti”, in: I religioni in Italia, Accessed from http://www.cesnur.com/tradizionalisti-e-sedevacantisti/ on 12 August 2015.
Karas, Marcin. 2009. “Kościół palmariański : Nowy ruch religijny w tradycyjnej formi.” Nomos: Kwartalnik Religioznawczy 65/66. With a brief summary in English: “The Palmarian Catholic Church: A New Religious Movement in Traditional Form”.
Laboa, Juan María. 2005. “Los obispos españoles en el Concilio.” Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia 14:29-50.
Lama, César de la. 1976. El Palmar de Troya, milagro, S.A. Madrid: EFE.
Laycock, Joseph P. 2015. The Seer of Bayside: Veronica Leuken and the Struggle to Define Catholicism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Leatham, Miguel C. 2003. “’Shaking Out the Mat’: Schism and Organizational Transformation at a Mexican Ark of the Virgin.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42:175-87.
Lundberg, Magnus. 2013. “Fighting the Modern with the Virgin Mary: The Palmarian Church.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 17:40-60.
Luebbers, Amy. 2001. “The Remnant Faithful: A Case Study of Contemporary Apocalyptic Catholicism.” Sociology of Religion 62:221-41.
Marienlexikon. 1988-1994. edited by Remigius Bäumer & Leo Scheffczyk, 6 vols. St. Ottilien: EOS.
Mayer, Jean-François. 2011. “Église palmarienne: le nouveau pape annonce un concile et une année sainte en 2012.” Accessed from http://orbis.info/2011/11/eglise-palmarienne-le-nouveau-pape-annonce-un-concile-et-une-annee-sainte-en-2012/ on 12 August 2015.
Molina, Manuel M. 2006. Los secretos del Palmar de Troya: Historia de una herejia. Córdoba: Arco Press.
O’Malley, John W. 2008. What Happened at Vatican II. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
O’Sullivan, Michael E. 2009. “West German Miracles, Catholic Mystics, Church Hierarchy, and Postwar Popular Culture.” Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 6:11-34.
Pelayo Olmedo, José Daniel. 2009. “La personalidad jurídica de las confesiones religiosas y la actividad registral.” Pp. 79-116 in Isidoro Martín Sánchez & Marcos González Sánchez (eds.) Algunas cuestiones controvertidas del ejercicio del derecho fundamental de libertad religiosa en España. Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española.
Pelikan, Jaroslav. 1996. Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
Perry, Nicholas and Loreto Echeverría.1988. Under the Heel of Mary. New York: Routledge.
Preston, Paul. 1994. Franco: A Biography. New York: Basic Books/ HarperCollins.
Ruby, Griff. 2002. The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church: A Guide to the Traditional Catholic Movement. San José, CA: Writers Club Press. Also available at: http://www.the-pope.com on 12 August 2015
Pierre Martin Ngô-dinh-Thuc. [1976] 2006. “Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo: The Autobiography of Mgr. Pierre Martin Ngô-dinh-Thuc” [and related documents], Einsicht 2006, no. 12. Accessed from http://www.einsicht-aktuell.de/index.php?svar=2&ausgabe_id=180 on 12 August 2015
Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith. 1976. “Decretum circa quasdam illegitimas ordinationes presbyterales et episcopales”, 17 Sept 1976. P. 623 in Acta Apostolica Sedis, vol. LXVIII.
Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith. 1978. “Norms regarding the manner of proceeding in the discernment of presumed apparitions or revelations”, 25 February 1978. Accessed from: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19780225_norme-apparizioni_en.html on 12 August 2015
Seco Caro, Carlos. 1988. “La inscripción en el Registro de Entidades religiosas de las denominadas ‘Iglesia Cristiana Palmariana de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz’ y ‘Orden religiosa de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz en Compañía de Jesús y María’. Anuario de derecho eclesiástico del estado 4:581-600.
Steinhauer, Eric W. 2014. “Die Palmarianische Kirche: ‘Wilde Volksfrömmigkeit’ im Kontext nach-konziliaren Traditionalismus.” Pp. 101-124 in Reimund Haas (ed.), Fiat voluntas tua: Theologe und Historiker—Priester und Professor: Festschift zum 65. Geburtsdag von Harm Kleuting am 23. März 2014. Münster: Aschendorff.
Tribunal Supremo. 1987. “Sala de lo Contencioso-Administrativo, Núm. 1.403: Sentencia de 2 de noviembre de 1987). Accessed from http://www.poderjudicial.es/search/doAction?action=contentpdf&databasematch=TS&reference=1181729&links=Palmar%20de%20Troya&optimize=20051011&publicinterface=true on 12 August 2015.
Valentin, Friederike & Rudolf Pacik. 1983. Gregor XVII. und die Palmarianish-Katolische Kirche, Sekten und religiöse Sondergemeinchaften in Österreich, Dokumentation vol. 1/83. Vienna: Referat für Welanschuungsfragen.
Vidal, Manuel. 1976. A la extrema derecha de Dios Padre. Madrid: A.Q. Ediciones.
Zimdars-Swartz, Sandra L. 1991. Encountering Mary: From La Salette to Medjugorje. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Zimdars-Swartz, Sandra L. 1989. “Religious Experience and Public Cult: The Case of Mary Ann Van Hoof”. Journal of Religion and Health 28:36-57.
Zoccatelli, PierLuigi. 2009. “The Current Status of Catholic Sedevacantism and Antipopes.” Accessed from http://www.cesnur.org/2009/plz_sedevacantism.htm on 12 August 2015.
Documentaries and movies
El Palmar de Troya, la iglesia oscura, “Los Reporteros”, CSTV, 1991, 29 min.
Spanish TV documentary about the Palmarian church. Accessed from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeCd5wDGf0 on 12 August 2015.
[Gregory XVII, vision January 1, 2001], 5 min. Accessed from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGUQqNgffUM on 12 August 2015.
Ireland’s Secret Cults, Irish TV 3, 2011, 45 min.
Irish TV Documentary, which includes a reportage about the Irish branch of the Palmarians. Accessed from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKgx94QIiSc on 12 August 2015.
La de Troya en el Palmar, directed by José María Zabalza, 1984, 77 min
A comedy about a bullfighter who goes to Palmar de Troya in search of a cure for his brother.
Manuel y Clemente, directed by Javier Palmero, 1985, 91 min.
A comedy about the apparitions and the role of Manuel and Clemente with Juan Jesús Valverde and Ángel de Andrés López in the title roles. Accessed from http://pccinebox.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/manuel-y-clemente.html on 12 August 2015.
Magnus Lundberg 