Mary reconciles the English and the French on the verge of war

On June 24, 1187, while Philip Augustus, King of France, and the King of England were fighting for the possession of the Duchy of Aquitaine, Our Lady of Déols(1) intervened. She would later be known as Our Lady of Miracles of Déols.

The king of France, having vainly sought peace, took "the decision to fight to finally end such a long war with a decisive action. The inhabitants of Déols, frightened by the fierce battle that was about to begin, went to pray before the image of Mary and begged her to prevent the shedding of blood.

While they were praying, the two armies were facing each other, in full battle order; the signal for battle was about to sound when suddenly, the king of England came forward with his son and asked to speak to Philip Augustus. The latter presented himself and the king declared that he accepted the conditions proposed in the previous negotiations, and peace was concluded!

Such unexpected news caused a general shock; kings and lords, people and soldiers, all recognized a miracle in this sudden change of disposition at the very moment when tempers were at their peak and the battle was about to be fought. The same feeling of awe gathers them around the image of Mary to bless her. The enmity between the French and the English was gone; they were all one family of brothers before the common Mother who had protected them and saved them from death.

Chronicles of Déols 

Bibliotheca Nova

(1) Déols is a French town located in the department of Indre, in the region of Centre-Val de Loire. The Mother of God has been venerated in Déols in a special way since the year 917. It was in the course of that year, at the beginning of September, that a certain Elbon or Ebbon, nephew of Saint Geronce, archbishop of Bourges, founded an abbey in honor of the Blessed Virgin and the holy apostles Peter and Paul.