Our Lady of Pellevoisin
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Our Lady of Pellevoisin (French: Notre-Dame de Pellevoisin) is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary which refers to a series of Marian apparitions in Pellevoisin, Indre, France. Pellevoisin is west of Châteauroux in the Catholic Archdiocese of Bourges.[1]: 2
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Location | Pellevoisin, France |
Date | 14 February to 8 December 1876 |
Shrine | Sanctuary of the All-Merciful Mother of Pellevoisin |
In 1876, a domestic servant, Estelle Faguette, reported receiving a series of fifteen apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and recovered from a serious illness, tuberculosis. A distinctive feature of Faguette's apparitions was her claim that the Virgin wished her devotees to wear a Scapular of the Sacred Heart.
Following authorization by the Archbishop of Bourges in 1877, Faguette's bedroom was transformed into an oratory.[2] Pellevoisin rapidly became a place of pilgrimage, the shrine of Our Lady of Pellevoisin. Pope Leo XIII encouraged the pilgrimages by approving indulgences to pilgrims,[3]: 111 and also approved related devotions to Our Lady.[4]
In 1983, Archbishop Paul Vignancour of Bourges formally declared Faguette's cure to be inexplicable in the light of medical science and that her recovery could rightly be regarded as a miracle by Catholics.