Mary came to the help of France during WWI and told visionary Marcelle Lanchon: "See how I cherish your beloved country" (2)

September 8, 1914, turned out to be a highly significant day: at the same time that the Virgin Mary was appearing to Marcelle Lanchon, 100 km from Versailles, Bishop Emmanuel Marbeau of Meaux promised to erect a statue to Our Lady if his town would be spared from the Battle of the Marne raging nearby. 

It was only later discovered that Mary appeared several times between September 5 and 8, 1914, at Barcy near Meaux (Ile-de-France region), warning German soldiers not to go any further towards Paris, through accounts similar to those of Pontmain in 1871 and the "miracle on the Vistula" in Poland in 1920, which halted the advance of the Bolshevik army. 

Testimonies from German prisoners of war treated in French hospitals indicate that tens of thousands of men saw these apparitions, but were forbidden to speak about them under penalty of death. The Virgin was dressed as at Lourdes in 1858, with a blue sash: some wounded Germans only identified her when they later saw a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes. Mrs. Bongard, wife of a former mayor of Barcy and a hospital volunteer, told her daughter:

"The wounded Germans, by the hundreds, were all saying the same thing: ‘It’s so hard to believe it, but it was the Blessed Virgin who drove us back. We really saw her, and yet we had the upper hand. We were about to crush the French lines, then reach Paris, and suddenly we were routed! We saw her, the Blessed Virgin! Was it an apparition, or a general delusion? She pushed us back with her hand, and we fled in the face of this supernatural force... We couldn't go any further!"(2) (3)

Source: www.prophetiepournotretemps.com

(1) See: A Moment with Marie from yesterday September 8, 2023

(2)  https://www.mariereine.com/le-miracle-de-la-marne-intervention-de-notre-dame/

(3) About the "Miracle of the Marne", Bishop Marbeau died in 1921 before being able to accomplish his vow of September 8, 1914, but a statue of Our Lady of the Marne with the Child Jesus was inaugurated in 1924 in front of 4000 people. It bears the inscription, chosen by Bishop Marbeau: "You will not go further".