The sick and dying were all healed

The pilgrimage of Our Lady of Grace of Maillane, commemorating the 159th anniversary of the miracle of the Virgin in this Provençal village in France, took place on August 28-29 of this year.

In August 1854, cholera was causing terrible ravages in France. On the 13th of that month, it broke out in the village of Maillane. Faced with the inability to contain the scourge, the people of Maillane saw their only hope in Our Lady of Grace, whose statue had been relegated to a classroom of the nuns' school.

On the 28th of August, the inhabitants and priests of the parish went to fetch the statue and brought the statue out in a procession of penance, stopping in front of each house that had an affected person. Of the 110 people who had not fled the village, 30 were sick and 8 on the verge of dying.

In the church square, the old prayer was intoned: "Sub tuum praesidium ..." ("We fly to thy protection, O holy Mother of God…"). At that same moment, the sick and dying were all healed! Since then, Maillane has always been preserved from the plague that reappeared several times in Provence until the end of the 19th century.

Source from the French: Notre Dame de Maillane