The Virgin comes to ask us to love her "Immaculate Heart"

On January 18, 1840, the Virgin Mary appeared to Justine Bisqueyburu (1817-1903), from Mauleon in the Pyrenees (France), who was a postulant with the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, in the convent of Blangy-sur-Bresle, near Versailles. The Virgin asked her to love her "Immaculate Heart."      

On February 8, 1840, the Virgin gave Justine the "green scapular," a Catholic sacramental associated with the Sisters of Saint Vincent de Paul - not to be confused with the scapular of the Immaculate Heart of Mary associated with the Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.      

The apparitions followed one another: On August 15 and September 13, 1841, in Versailles; then on May 13, 1842, and September 8, 1846, also in Versailles. In 1855, Sister Justine went to Constantinople to tend to the wounded of the Crimean War, then to Algeria from 1858 to 1867, as superior of the military hospital of Dey.

Pope Pius IX approved the green scapular in 1870.  

Sources: B. D. Attwater, A Dictionary of Mary, New York, P.J. Kennedy and Sons, 1956; "Bisqueyburu, Justine", Marienlexikon, vol. I, 1988, 496; Däniken, 305; Ernst, 1989, 97; Gamba 1999, 389-390; Hierzenberger, 1993, 193-194; M.E. Mott, The Green Scapular, Emmitsburg, St Joseph College, 1942; D. Sharkey, The Woman Shall Conquer, Libertyville, Franciscan Marytown Press, 1976; Turi, 389. P.S.