Some people call them a cult of sedevacantists that don't allow people to consume media or follow the world. They believe the Second Vatican council was invalid and that they alone are the one holy catholic apostolic church of Jesus Christ
The origins of the Palmarians as a distinct body can be traced back to the alleged Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Palmar, which took place in Andalusia, Spain from 1968 onward. Two men became particularly associated with this movement as time went on, Clemente Domínguez y Gómez and Manuel Alonso Corral. The former was known as a charismatic visionary and seer, while the latter the intellectual éminence grise. The messages of these visions were favourable to a traditionalist Catholic pushback to the liberalising changes introduced by the Second Vatican Council and alleged a Masonic infiltration of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1975, the Palmarians founded a religious order known as the Carmelites of the Holy Face and had a number of priests ordained, then consecrated as bishops by Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục, giving them holy orders. After the death of Pope Paul VI in 1978, Clemente Domínguez claimed that he had been mystically crowned Pope of the Catholic Church by Jesus Christ and was to reign as Pope Gregory XVII from El Palmar de Troya.
Located in the sleepy town of El Palmar de Troya, population 2500. This building is quite striking. They also have some pretty trippy art on their website (looks like they spent a lot of time on it)
https://www.palmarianchurch.org/they have skitzo books
https://www.palmarianchurch.org/palmarian-library/https://www.palmarianchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Where-is-the-True-Catholic-Church-of-all-times-English.pdf
https://www.palmarianchurch.org/lies-calumnies-and-the-media/Although very good and useful things can be found on the Internet, we know as well that it’s a place where irresponsible anonymity and shameless animosity regrettably compete, embracing perverse calumniation. The One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Palmarian Church, without provoking it, is a victim of these kind of attacks.
The Palmarian Church is fallaciously and cunningly attacked by way of her members and her doctrine. Things are said of her Popes that are painful to repeat, in particular regarding Saint Gregory XVII the Very Great, the first Pope whose See was in El Palmar de Troya. The falseness of those infamous lies can begin to be suspected simply noticing that, with refined cunning, they all make reference to alleged incidents that in themselves are unverifiable. Moreover, Saint Gregory XVII – in the same way as his first predecessor, Saint Peter I the Very Great, who didn’t permit even as Pope that in the Gospel his errors and sins be concealed – never hid his true sins and defects: whoever wishes to know them has only to read his twenty-seventh Pontifical Document or his heavenly vision from 21st of January 2001.
Even stranger things are said about the doctrine: it has even been declared, for example, that Hitler was canonized by the Palmarian Church. The falseness of this calumny is easy to prove by simply reading the Palmarian History of the Church, composed by Saint Peter II the Great – the second Pope whose See was in El Palmar – where he forcefully and categorically supports the condemnation of nazism by his predecessor Pope Saint Pius XI. Read More
The varied and outrageous nature of these kind of attacks however should not completely surprise us. After all, the Church’s very Divine Founder, Jesus Christ, was accused of blasphemy and of being possessed by the devil and was submitted to an iniquitous trial during his Sacrosanct Passion. And although it’s true that the attacks on the Palmarian Church don’t themselves prove that it is the True Church, it is nevertheless a distinctive detail that, throughout the course of History, always accompanied the faithful followers of Jesus Christ and his Most Holy Mother, the Virgin Mary.
We would ask all those who are exposed to the “information” on the Palmarian Church that is spread around on the Internet to consider it with the prudence and common sense that everything published on the Internet requires, but above all, to follow the infallible counsel and warning of Christ: “By their fruits or deeds you shall know them”. Consider the worship to God, to his Most Holy Mother and to the Saints that is rendered within the Palmarian Church; examine it’s doctrine which is faithful to the catholic tradition of all times and is exceedingly enriched with dogmatic definitions and magisterial teachings; savour the gentle and vigorous spirituality that is exhaled by the prayers and hymns which nourish the Palmarian Devotionary and Hymnal. Approach the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Palmarian Church without prejudice and neither accepting without a judicious analysis what they try to impose – those who seem to want to hide the Sun of El Palmar with their hands.
Here is a current picture of their iconic building from Google Maps, currently it appears to be a walled compound and is contrasted to the rest of the town especially against this wall with graffiti art.
(I have taken artistic liberties in digitally editing this photo)
