The Apparitions
Mariette Beco was 12 and a half years old when she reported Marian apparitions in 1933 in Banneux, Belgium, a hamlet about 15 kilometres southeast of the city of Liège. The villagers vowed in 1914 to consecrate their town to Our Lady if it escaped the ravages of war. Banneux was unharmed during World War I, and the village was thereafter called “Banneux of Our Lady”. At these apparitions, the Lady in White reportedly declared she was the
Virgin of the Poor and said: “Believe in me and I will believe in you.”
According to Mariette, she first saw the Blessed Virgin on the evening of Sunday 16 January 1933, as she was looking out the kitchen window. A woman in white stood in the garden and called to her to come out, but her mother – thinking that her daughter was crazy – would not let her. Mariette described Mary as a young lady in the yard smiling at her. She was bent slightly forward and wearing a long white gown with a blue sash, and a transpar
The story of the apparition at Knock began on the evening of the 21st of August 1879. Throughout the years, there are have been many milestones which have seen this small rural village grow to become an international pilgrimage destination.
1880
‘I saw everything distinctly. The figures were full and round as if they had a body and were alive. They said nothing, but as we approached, they seemed to go back a little towards the gable.’ Patrick Hill, aged 11 years, Apparition Witness.
APPARITION APPROVED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH – DECEMBER 18TH, 1954
Even though no words were ever spoken at the apparition, the symbolism of the images presented were worth thousands of spoken words! Fifteen people, whose ages ranged from five years to seventy-five and included men, women, teenagers and children, witnessed what they stated was an apparition of Our Lady, Saint Joseph, and Saint John the Evangelist at the south gable end of the local small parish church, the Church of Saint John
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