"Fear nothing, you are my daughter"

Pellevoisin is a small village in Central France. On February 15, 1876, around midnight, 33-year old maid, Estelle Faguette, saw the Virgin Mary at her home, then fourteen more times up until December 8, 1876.

As a sign of spiritual warfare, the first apparition of the Virgin to Estelle was preceded, for a few short moments, by an apparition of the devil. She recounts: "The Virgin turned towards me and said softly to me: ‘Fear not, you are my daughter. Courage, be patient, my Son will let Himself be touched. You will suffer another five days, in honor of the five wounds of my Son. On Saturday, you will be dead or cured’."

During the night of February 18th (fifth apparition), Estelle miraculously recovered from tuberculosis.

Adapted from: Father René Laurentin and Patrick Sbalchiero, Dictionnaire encyclopédique des apparitions de la Vierge. Fayard, Paris 2007.